Solutions Engineer
PlanetScale · Remote (EMEA, - NA) · Sales
About this role
PlanetScale is hiring a mid-level Solutions Engineer in the software engineering function as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, AWS, GCP and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $160,000–$250,000 per year.
- Role
- Solutions Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Remote (EMEA, - NA)
- Work mode
- Remote
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Department
- Sales
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Job description
from PlanetScale careersPlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the transactional database market. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads — without sacrificing developer experience.
PlanetScale is backed with over $100M in venture financing from top-tier VCs including a16z, Kleiner Perkins, SignalFire, and Insight Venture Partners. And we serve some of the most innovative companies in the world such as Block, Anysphere (Cursor), MyFitnessPal, Etsy, Kick, and thousands more. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for early members of our Sales team that can form deep partnerships with our prospects and customers to help them adopt and succeed on the next generation of database infrastructure.
What's the job to be done?
- 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.