Remote AI Dev Experience Architect

Kenyan Edu; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

PlanetScale is seeking an AI Developer Experience Engineer to own the end-to-end developer experience with AI tooling and our infrastructure. You will build and maintain plugins, integrate with AI coding tools, test across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more, and help developers ship faster with robust docs and demos.

You will collaborate with the MCP server, CLI and API teams, create evals, measure usage and communicate complex ideas through blogs, videos and talks.

Qualifications

• Experience building an MCP server, plugin, CLI or SDK used by developers.
• Software engineering background in TypeScript and Go, with comfort using APIs, OAuth and the command line.
• Experience writing docs, blogs, and/or video content for developers.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI developer experience end to end for PlanetScale and AI tooling.
• Build and maintain plugins for PlanetScale across AI marketplaces and directories.
• Test MCP server and CLI across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other clients; catch regressions.

Skills

AI coding agents

MCP server

Go/TypeScript

Docs writing

Communication

Relational databases

Data fluency

Public speaking

Independent delivery

Curiosity about AI

Tools

APIs

OAuth

Command line

Job description

PlanetScale is seeking an AI Developer Experience Engineer to own the end-to-end developer experience with AI tooling and our infrastructure. You will build and maintain plugins, integrate with AI coding tools, test across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more, and help developers ship faster with robust docs and demos.

You will collaborate with the MCP server, CLI and API teams, create evals, measure usage and communicate complex ideas through blogs, videos and talks.