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Series CSan Francisco, California73 people
3 of 11 roles
Roles are read from PlanetScale’s Greenhouse every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
PlanetScale hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- PlanetScale has the 676th most open roles of 2,946 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 11 open roles is 0.6× the average Series C startup here (17.2).
- 64% of openings are in Engineering, then Marketing (18%).
- Most roles are mid level (73%). 1 role suit graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 73, these openings would grow headcount by up to 15%.
- Median posted pay of $190k is 9% above the Series C startup median ($175k).
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- Engineering pay here (median $185k) is 1% above the market median for Engineering ($183k).
- 91% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 55% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 100% of postings mention equity.
- 1 posting say they don’t sponsor visas.
- 12 roles added in the last 30 days; 1 closed in the last 90.
- Its roles stay open for a median 53 days before closing (market: 44 days).
- A typical open listing here is 57 days old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
Momentum scoreToo little data
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 0% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
100%at 7 days100%at 30 days88%at 60 days88%at 90 days
Momentum, explained
- PlanetScale hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 12
- Roles added in 30 days
- 12
- Roles added in 90 days
- 12
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 1
- Median time a role stays open
- 53 days
- Market: 44 days
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #676
- of 2,946 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.15
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 11
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 1
- 9% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 3
- 27% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 57 days
- Oldest: 15 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $190k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $175k–$203k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 91%
- 10 of 11
- Mention equity
- 100%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 55%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- 1 say they don’t
- Graduate and intern roles
- 1
- Median experience asked
- 5 yrs
- 1 ask a year or less
Breakdowns
12
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Engineering764%
- 2Marketing218%
- 3Design19%
- 4Product19%
- 1Mid level873%
- 2Graduate / entry19%
- 3Manager19%
- 4Senior19%
- 1Remote655%
- 2Not stated436%
- 3Onsite19%
- 1San Francisco218%
- 2EMEA19%
- 3San Francisco Office19%
- 4US19%
- 1Not stated11100%
- 1Marketing436%
- 2Customer Engineering327%
- 3Engineering218%
- 4Legal19%
- 5Sales19%
$120kLow$175k25th$190kMedian$203k75th$290kHigh
$138kLow$138k25th$175kMedian$217k75th$217kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every PlanetScale role.