Developer Educator: Content, Talks & Community

Mosaec; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

PlanetScale is seeking a Developer Educator to advance database education and engagement across conferences, events, and online communities. You will craft technical content and documentation for Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, and the PlanetScale ecosystem, and represent the company at developer gatherings.

You’ll teach and inspire engineers, translate complex concepts into accessible material, and build a thriving engineering community. Willingness to travel 20–50% is required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in engineering, solution architecture, technical education, or developer relations.
• Strong understanding of relational databases (Postgres or MySQL).
• Proven ability to create technical content (samples of blog posts, tutorials, documentation, or speaking engagements).
• Experience speaking at conferences or hosting technical presentations and events.
• Willingness to travel between 20-50% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Create technical content to help customers and engineers learn how Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, and the PlanetScale ecosystem works
• Speak at conferences and events, representing PlanetScale in the database and engineering community
• Create and refine product documentation
• Host livestreams and webinars to engage with and educate our community
• Your role may contain between 20-50% travel to connect with developers at events worldwide

Skills

Database fundamentals

Technical communication

Public speaking

Writing skills

Project management

Travel willingness

Tools

Vitess

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Docs tooling

Job description

PlanetScale is seeking a Developer Educator to advance database education and engagement across conferences, events, and online communities. You will craft technical content and documentation for Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, and the PlanetScale ecosystem, and represent the company at developer gatherings.

You’ll teach and inspire engineers, translate complex concepts into accessible material, and build a thriving engineering community. Willingness to travel 20–50% is required.