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Solutions Engineer

PlanetScale· Sales
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Hybrid (Remote)$160k - $250kFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Solutions Engineer at PlanetScale focusing on pre-sales and post-sales technical engagements for PostgreSQL and Vitess workloads, including migrations, performance optimization, and customer enablement.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Sales and Customer Engineering throughout the pre-sales and post-sales journey as the technical expert helping customers solve their most challenging database problems.
  • Lead technical discovery to match customers’ business and technical objectives with PlanetScale’s offerings.
  • Design and execute proof of value timelines that deliver on agreed upon business outcomes and success criteria.
  • Design database migration strategies and work hands-on with customers to execute migrations to PlanetScale's PostgreSQL and Vitess platforms.
  • Assess workloads, analyze performance requirements, and recommend architecture, sizing, and optimization strategies.
  • Build tools, scripts, and automation that accelerate migrations and improve customer onboarding.
  • Create educational content including documentation, guides, blog posts, workshops, and videos.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to advocate for customer needs and shape the platform.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL in production, including operations, performance tuning, and troubleshooting OR 5+ years of experience supporting customers with MySQL or PostgreSQL workloads where you advised on operations, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
  • Experience working with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI)
  • Proven success in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager
  • Strong understanding of database migration strategies and tooling
  • Experience evaluating database solutions including architecture reviews, capacity planning, and performance analysis
  • Ability to write scripts and tools in Python, Go, or JavaScript
  • Experience creating technical content such as documentation, tutorials, or blog posts

Skills

Required:Database systemsPresentation and scriptingCustomer-facing communicationContent creation

Benefits

  • (Not specified in provided description)
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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