PlanetScale
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US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +14% in a year
Hiring now
10
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
South Park Commons, Insight Partners
Momentum
19/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 4
First sales or marketing role Sales Development Representative
Mar 13, 2025
On the Hacker News front page IO Devices and Latency · 443 points
Sep 9, 2024
On the Hacker News front page B-Trees and Database Indexes · 351 points
Apr 7, 2023
On the Hacker News front page How does database sharding work? · 343 points
Mar 30, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Generics can make your Go code slower · 449 points
Nov 18, 2019
Launched PlanetScale Unveils PlanetScale CNDb - First and Only Cloud Native Database Built on Vitess · businesswire.com
2018
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.29%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
304
best: 462 points
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
South Park Commons 
Insight Partners 
SignalFire 
Andreessen Horowitz 
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How PlanetScale hires
Truth index
C 64/100
Ghost roles
60%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
PlanetScale scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 60% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
News
Anatomy of a (Postgres) search engine
How a full-text search engine works, and how it works in Postgres
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Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres
TIN is a fast, full-featured, full-text search index for Postgres
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118 million queries per second on Neki
We ran a massive, sharded Postgres database at 118.5 million queries per second, with 200k queries per second on each shard across 512 shards.
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Introducing Neki
Neki, sharded Postgres by PlanetScale, is now available in platform preview.
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The lifecycle of a sharded Postgres query - PlanetScale
Follow a SQL query through the router, across four Postgres shards, and back.
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How one connection kills a database
Unblock stuck connections with live connection management in the PlanetScale CLI and dashboard
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What is a Neki router?
A Neki router gives applications a Postgres connection to one database while planning and coordinating queries across the shards behind it.
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Problems with large tables in Postgres
Postgres presents pretty predictable performance problems when dealing with large tables. Sharding solves this.
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Postgres Sharding
Why has it taken so long to get good Postgres sharding? The last 20 years are the answer.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at PlanetScale over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
26
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Go
Python
Ruby
Rust
Databases
PostgreSQL
MySQL
ClickHouse
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
AWS
Azure
GCP
AI & ML
Claude
LLM
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26 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$235k
Typical range
$160k – $290k
Open positions
8
5
Jobs
Junior
20%
Senior
80%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $200k | $200k |
| Senior | 4 | $270k | $250k – $290k |
Highest paying role
Software Engineer - Insights
$290k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at PlanetScale
By role, level and city, against the market · 8 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
56/100
Growing
Open positions
10
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
266 days
faster than 8% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
25% ▲
Design
25% ▲
Legal
25% ▲
Sales
25% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Wikipedia to stack
Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack
Sep 2026
Added Intercom to stack
Sep 2026
Added Claude to stack
Sep 2026
Added Figma to stack
Sep 2026
Added TypeScript to stack
Sep 2026
Added PagerDuty to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitHub Actions to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Sep 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack
Aug 2026
New location: San Francisco
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
San Francisco Bay Area
5 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 40% remote 50-200 est. staff $225k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Legal, Sales
WeWork c/o PlanetScale, 535 Mission Street, 14th Floor, San Francisco, 94105
Jobs
$170k – $220k per year • Remote (United States)
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Cursor
Design
Figma
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$120k – $160k per year • In office • San Francisco
Go
TypeScript
Ruby
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
Terraform
GitHub Actions
PagerDuty
Kubernetes
Management
Slack
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$160k – $250k per year • Remote (EMEA) • 5+ years exp
Python
Go
JavaScript
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Cursor
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
CloudFormation
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
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$120k – $290k per year • Remote (EMEA) • 5+ years exp
Python
Go
Java
C++
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
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≈ $95k – $264k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EMEA, United States) • 5+ years exp
Python
Rust
Ruby
PostgreSQL
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
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$120k – $290k per year • Remote (EMEA, United States) • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Go
Rust
Ruby
MySQL
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Anomaly Detection
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
Prometheus
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$120k – $200k per year • Remote (EMEA, APAC)
Python
Go
PHP
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Management
Slack
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