PlanetScale
AI Developer Experience Engineer
$170K–$220K
Remote US +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- Remote US
Remote - US
About the job
Own PlanetScale’s developer experience across AI tools, integrations, evaluation and measurement, while creating content that teaches developers to use databases with AI.
What you'll do
- Build, maintain, and test PlanetScale integrations, plugins, skills, MCP server, and CLI across AI tools and marketplaces.
- Develop agent-task evaluations and benchmarks, and measure agent usage, recommendations, and product performance.
- Create demos, documentation, blog posts, and videos, and represent PlanetScale at conferences.
What they ask for
- Daily use of AI coding agents.
- Experience building an MCP server, plugin, CLI, or SDK used by developers.
- Software engineering background, including comfort with APIs, OAuth, and the command line.
- Experience with relational databases, including schema design, migrations, connection handling, and production use of Postgres or MySQL.
Nice to have
- Contributions to the MCP spec, SDKs, or popular open-source MCP servers.
- Experience with LLM evaluation tools and agent benchmarks.
Pay
$170,000 - $220,000 USD base salary
Tools
TypeScript, Go, Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, Vitess, Claude Code, Cursor
AI focus
Build and improve AI-agent integrations for PlanetScale; create agent evaluations and benchmarks; measure agent use and recommendations; and produce guidance and demos for using databases with AI.
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