[Hiring] Developer Educator @PlanetScale

Role Description

We're looking for a Developer Educator who is excited about bringing database education to new heights, creating unique and engaging content, helping customers, and building the PlanetScale engineering community at conferences, events, and online.

• Create technical content to help customers and engineers at-large learn how Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, and the PlanetScale ecosystem works.
• Speak at conferences and events, representing PlanetScale in the database and engineering community.
• Create and refine product documentation.
• Host livestreams and webinars to engage with and educate our community.
• Your role may contain between 20-50% travel to connect with developers at events worldwide.

Qualifications

• Teaches complex technical concepts in accessible ways.
• Loves learning about and explaining full-stack application development, databases, and compute infrastructure.
• Is a natural communicator who can adapt your message for different audiences.
• Thrives in community settings and enjoys building relationships with developers.
• Has excellent writing skills and can produce content that engineers actually want to read.
• Is self-motivated and can manage multiple projects independently.
• Enjoys experimenting with new ideas to further the education and marketing mission on PlanetScale.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in engineering, solution architecture, technical education, or developer relations.
• Strong understanding of relational databases (Postgres or MySQL).
• Proven ability to create technical content (samples of blog posts, tutorials, documentation, or speaking engagements).
• Experience speaking at conferences or hosting technical presentations and events.
• Willingness to travel between 20-50% of the time.

Benefits

• We're redefining how high-growth companies manage data at scale.
• Work with some of the most exciting brands in gaming, consumer tech, and B2B SaaS.
• At PlanetScale, we believe in supporting people to do their best work.
• We strive to build an environment where people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are a candidate or an employee.

Company Description

PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. Our database platform offers developers the fastest and most reliable Postgres and Vitess+MySQL databases, enabling businesses to efficiently handle data and workloads of all scales.

We also take DX seriously. Our platform enables developers with deep performance insights, AI integration, powerful cluster management, and schema migration tooling.

Our customers trust us with what is often their most precious digital asset: their data. The stakes couldn't be higher.