AI Developer Experience Engineer

• Build and maintain skills for working with Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, and PlanetScale

Measure how well we're doing

• Build evals that run real agent tasks against PlanetScale databases

• Benchmark how agents perform with PlanetScale and work towards continuous improvement

• Track how often AI assistants and agents recommend PlanetScale for database questions, and whether what they say about us is accurate

• Instrument and report on agent usage: databases created by agents, time to first connection, MCP versus CLI usage, and where sessions fail

Show people how to do it well

• Build demos and sample apps that show PlanetScale and AI tooling at their best

• Write docs, guides and blog posts on using databases effectively with AI, including safe access, branching and performance assessment

• Make videos and attend conferences to communicate with our audience how to build effectively with AI

These attributes best describe you

• Daily use of AI coding agents, with strong opinions about what makes a tool work well with them

• Experience building an MCP server, plugin, CLI or SDK that real developers use

• Software engineering background in languages like TypeScript and Go, and comfort with APIs, OAuth and the command line

• Experience with writing docs, blogs, and / or video content creation

• Good at communicating with a broad audience and customers alike on socials

• Experience working with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite), schema design, migrations, connection handling, and Postgres or MySQL in production

• Data fluency: designing evals, writing the queries behind a dashboard, and telling a real trend from noise

• Clear communication of technical ideas in writing, on video and on stage

• Independence and speed: spotting a gap, shipping a fix, and telling people about it

• Genuine curiosity about the AI tooling landscape and a habit of keeping up with it

Bonus points

• Contributions to the MCP spec, SDKs or popular open-source MCP servers

• Experience writing agent skills, plugins or rules files for Claude Code, Cursor or Codex

• Experience with LLM eval tools and building benchmarks for agents

• Experience with AEO or GEO, or with tracking how LLMs surface and recommend a product

• A blog, YouTube channel or GitHub that developers already follow

• Experience with Vitess, database sharding, or running databases at scale

Why PlanetScale

We're redefining how high-growth companies manage data at scale—and we work with some of the most exciting brands in gaming, consumer tech, and B2B SaaS. As a Software Engineer, you'll be at the core of building the platform that powers world-class apps used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide. 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!

Total Compensation and Pay Transparency

An employee's total compensation consists of base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to answer any further questions when we engage with you to begin the interview process.

Base Salary Range: $170,000 - $220,000

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