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PlanetScale is the world’s most advanced serverless MySQL platform. PlanetScale’s cloud is trusted by companies you know and love.
Employee count: 51-200
PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the transactional database market. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads — without sacrificing developer experience.
PlanetScale is backed with over $100M in venture financing from top-tier VCs including a16z, Kleiner Perkins, SignalFire, and Insight Venture Partners. And we serve some of the most innovative companies in the world such as Block, Anysphere (Cursor), MyFitnessPal, Etsy, Kick, and thousands more. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a leader to build and lead PlanetScale’s Data Science function to support best in class analytics, forecasting, and decision-making.
Build and be responsible for PlanetScale’s data and analytics efforts from zero to one, and play a leading role in shaping decision making through data. You will be the key lynchpin connecting the business with data to inform how we are executing against our company goals and where to direct our resources. Your scope will be broad and cover at least the following:
PlanetScale is a profitable company with a philosophy centered around building small teams of p99 individuals and is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America.
At PlanetScale we believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive no matter the location. Our mission is to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company. We strive to build an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are a candidate or an employee. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, pregnancy status, and veteran status.
If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
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We're building the database of the future, together. PlanetScale is the world’s most advanced serverless MySQL platform.
We are a globally distributed company with offices in Mountain View, CA. We value high performance, accountability, and integrity. We take our commitments seriously, but we do not take ourselves seriously.
PlanetScale isn’t an incremental improvement on what came before it — it’s a whole new way of thinking about building modern applications.
Most companies say they’re focused on developer happiness, but when you see their products, it doesn’t add up. Come see how PlanetScale is different.
Our philosophy is to attract the best talent and to support them doing amazing things where they are the most comfortable and productive. We have a highly distributed, remote forward team with employees across the United States and the globe. In order to achieve this goal, we will either hire directly to PlanetScale or partner with a Professional Employment Organization (PEO).
Due to business requirements, we may need to hire in a certain country or region. The job post on our career site will identify whether the role is location specific or can be remote (for example, Remote - United States or Remote - Americas)
As we are a company based in the United States, however, we are required to comply with suggested hiring practices for sanctioned countries. We will not be able to consider candidates from several countries due to United States countrywide embargoes banning any business with anyone in those countries. This list currently includes: North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Sudan, and the Crimean region of Ukraine. Although not subject to the same type of US embargo, there are other practical and legal considerations barring us from hiring or contracting with a resident of Mainland China.
There is another group of countries where sanctions are not countrywide, but instead prohibit us from hiring certain listed individuals. Individuals end up on these sanctions lists for human rights violations, terrorism, international narcotics trafficking, and genocide.
Our Talent Acquisition team will be responsible for ensuring the appropriate vetting of candidates is completed and we are in compliance with any legal requirements - United States and/or international. We will notify all applicants of our decision to not consider them further as a candidate or to engage them in our interview process.
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Next.js
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CSS 3
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Google Tag Manager
Segment
Sanity
Amazon EC2
Google Cloud Platform
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$100 per month taken right off your cell phone bill.
We’re a remote first company distributed all over the world.
Don’t worry! We’ve got you 100% covered, and your family at 85%.
Check for your quarterly delivered snack box based on your preference.
51-200 employees
2018
Sam Lambert
Explore the variety of open remote roles at PlanetScale, offering flexible work options across multiple disciplines and skill levels.
Employee count: 51-200
Salary: 120k-180k USD
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