PlanetScale

PlanetScale offers cloud hosting and database products for MySQL and PostgreSQL, including Vitess and Neki for horizontal sharding. The company serves workloads that outgrow a single node, providing tools for online schema changes, no-downtime upgrades, and connection pooling. Its technology powers database architectures for large organizations across multiple industries.

The open role at PlanetScale indicates that the company is building internal engineering teams focused on creating AI-enabled tools and agents. These tools are designed to automate manual workflows across engineering, support, and operations by integrating LLM APIs, building internal dashboards, and writing bots for systems like Slack and PagerDuty.

The current hiring includes an early-career software engineering position located at the company headquarters in San Francisco. This role is an in-office position requiring candidates to already live in the San Francisco Bay Area, with no remote options, relocation assistance, or visa sponsorship provided.