PlanetScale
A PostgreSQL Core Engineer at PlanetScale contributes to the PostgreSQL core engine and maintains Postgres extensions, both open-source and proprietary, to power their Postgres offering.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Company Size
51-200 employees
Founded
2018
PlanetScale is a managed cloud database platform providing high-performance hosting for Vitess and Postgres. Built on NVMe storage and Vitess-based horizontal sharding, it delivers extreme speed, effectively unlimited IOPS, and seamless scalability for mission-critical (Tier 0) workloads. PlanetScale offers flexible deployment and compliance options — including bring-your-own-cloud and PlanetScale Managed — plus developer-friendly tools and APIs. Companies like Cash App and Etsy use PlanetScale to run production databases.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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38% above the average for this role
PlanetScale debuts fully managed database service for Kubernetes clusters
Jun 16, 2020