Software Engineer — Surfaces

About the Role

Build the UI and developer experience layer of PlanetScale's database platform. The Surfaces team owns everything developers see — the dashboard, CLI output, query insights, and schema visualization tools.

What You'll Do

• Build product features for PlanetScale's web dashboard
• Design developer-facing interfaces for database management
• Create query visualization and schema exploration tools
• Own the frontend architecture and component system
• Work closely with infrastructure engineers on the API layer

What We Look For

• Strong frontend/product engineering skills
• Experience building complex data-heavy UIs
• Comfort working across the stack when needed
• Database or developer tooling experience is a plus

About PlanetScale

Serverless MySQL-compatible database platform. Series C ($105M raised). ~100 employees. Used by companies that need horizontally scalable databases without the ops burden.

Compensation

• Competitive salary + equity (not publicly disclosed)

Work Style

San Francisco Bay Area or remote.