PlanetScale
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Overview
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess and Postgres.
News
The dangers of Postgres subtransactions
Subtransactions can slow down your entire PostgreSQL server and break your high availability strategy by keeping new read replicas from accepting connections.
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Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower
Increasing throughput sometimes requires reducing parallelism. A look into why this is the case for Vitess + MySQL databases
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Massively parallel Postgres backups
PlanetScale backs up petabyte-scale sharded Postgres databases in hours using parallel infrastructure, object storage, and WAL replay.
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Benchmarking NVMe-backed Managed Postgres: PlanetScale and ClickHouse
We ran ClickHouse Managed Postgres and PlanetScale on the same hardware. ClickHouse delivered up to 54% higher throughput with lower latency.
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Postgres backups under the hood
With backups being such a vital part of keeping your data safe, how do they actually work?
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Technologies
Tech DNA
Python
Go
Ruby
PostgreSQL
MySQL
ClickHouse
AWS
Azure
GCP
AI/ML
Python
C++
PostgreSQL
AWS
Azure
GCP
MySQL
Kubernetes
Prometheus
ClickHouse
Anomaly Detection
Time Series Forecasting
CloudFormation
Terraform
Cursor
Backend
Go
Ruby
Rust
PHP
Java
Apache Kafka
Other
JavaScript
Slack
Stack modernity
73/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Python
6 jobs
Required
$290k
+61% vs market
PostgreSQL
6 jobs
Required
$290k
+96% vs market
GCP
5 jobs
Required
$290k
+53% vs market
Azure
5 jobs
Required
$290k
+73% vs market
AWS
5 jobs
Required
$290k
+57% vs market
Go
5 jobs
Required
$290k
+45% vs market
MySQL
5 jobs
Required
$290k
+124% vs market
Kubernetes
4 jobs
Required
$290k
+61% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
28%
JavaScript
25%
PostgreSQL
21%
AWS
21%
Kubernetes
21%
Azure
20%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
Time Series Forecasting
Aug 2026
Terraform
Aug 2026
JavaScript
Aug 2026
CloudFormation
Aug 2026
Java
Aug 2026
C++
Aug 2026
Rust
Aug 2026
Ruby
Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$290k
Typical range
$200k – $290k
Open positions
5
4
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 4 | $290k | $290k |
Highest paying role
Software Engineer - Insights
$290k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
63/100
Growing
Open positions
6
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~2 days
08/31/2026
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
50% ▼
Executive
50% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack
Aug 2026
New location: San Francisco
Aug 2026
Added Terraform to stack
Aug 2026
Added JavaScript to stack
Aug 2026
Added CloudFormation to stack
Aug 2026
Added Java to stack
Aug 2026
Added C++ to stack
Aug 2026
Added Rust to stack
Aug 2026
Added Ruby to stack
Aug 2026
Added Prometheus to stack
Aug 2026
Added ClickHouse to stack
Aug 2026
Added Apache Kafka to stack
Aug 2026
Jobs
$120k – $290k per year • Remote • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
C++
Go
Python
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
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$120k – $290k per year • Remote • 5+ years exp
C++
Go
Java
Python
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
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Remote • 5+ years exp
Python
Ruby
Rust
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Apply
$120k – $290k per year • Remote • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Go
Python
Ruby
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Apply
$120k – $290k per year • Remote • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Go
Python
Ruby
Rust
Apache Kafka
ClickHouse
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Anomaly Detection
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
Prometheus
Apply
$120k – $200k per year • In office
Go
PHP
Python
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Management
Slack
Apply