Planetscale Developer Educator at PlanetScale creating technical content and educating developers on Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, and the PlanetScale ecosystem. Engages with the community through conferences, events, webinars, and documentation.
Responsibilities
Create technical content to help customers and engineers at-large 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
The ideal candidate
Teaches complex technical concepts in accessible ways
Loves learning about and explaining full-stack application development, databases, and compute infrastructure
Is a natural communicator who can adapt your message for different audiences
Thrives in community settings and enjoy building relationships with developers
Has excellent writing skills and can produce content that engineers actually want to read
Is self-motivated and can manage multiple projects independently
Qualification
2+ years of experience in engineering
Required
2+ years of experience in engineering, solution architecture, technical education, or developer relations
Strong understanding of relational databases (Postgres or MySQL)
Proven ability to create technical content
Experience speaking at conferences or hosting technical presentations and events
Willingness to travel 20-50% of the time
Preferred
Experience with Vitess or other distributed database technologies
Knowledge of distributed systems and database scaling challenges
Previous experience at a database or infrastructure company