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Xata.io Tech Stack

Postgres branching platform for AI agents and development environments

Software Development San Francisco 11–50 employees Founded 2020 Privately Held

Xata builds a branching layer on top of vanilla Postgres, enabling thousands of isolated database copies that scale to zero — addressing the core pain point of isolated environments for AI agents without duplicating data. The engineering-heavy, staff-focused hiring profile (14 staff engineers) paired with active work on observability, pgroll migrations, and CI/CD automation suggests a deep infrastructure play targeting database scaling complexity rather than a consumer-facing product.

Tech Stack 24 technologies

Core StackGo Rust PostgreSQL Kubernetes AWS Docker Pulumi AWS RDS Python TypeScript Slack Figma Next.js Tailwind CSS GCP Aurora Cloud SQL Azure SQL Database Ceph OpenEBS Notion Azure Neon

What Xata.io Is Building

Challenges

  • Make postgres scalable for ai-era applications
  • Reducing infrastructure costs
  • Operational complexity
  • Isolated environments for ai agents
  • Eliminate staging pain
  • Database migrations
  • Performance requirements
  • Time to market reduction
  • Hard architectural problem simplification

Active Projects

  • Build scalable observable services
  • Maintain observability stack
  • Database branching
  • Pgroll
  • Pgstream
  • Implement ci/cd automation
  • Ci/cd automation tools
  • Build demo environments
  • Create migration tooling
  • Design proof-of-value engagements

Hiring Activity

Accelerating15 roles · 15 in 30d

Department

Engineering
17

Seniority

Staff
14
Senior
2
Mid
1
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About Xata.io

Xata provides a Postgres branching platform designed for applications at agent scale, particularly those running on AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises. The product uses copy-on-write branching to create isolated database instances without data duplication and applies scale-to-zero compute to reduce costs. The platform runs on vanilla Postgres and is available in three deployment modes: OSS, Cloud, or bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC). Founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, the company is building database infrastructure for teams solving operational complexity and staging pain in AI-native and multi-tenant applications.

HeadquartersSan Francisco
Company Size11–50 employees
Founded2020
Hiring MarketsSpain, Sweden, United States, Germany, Portugal, United Kingdom

Frequently Asked Questions

What tech stack does Xata use?

Xata's stack includes Go, Rust, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, AWS RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL, Azure SQL Database, Ceph, OpenEBS, Pulumi, Python, and TypeScript for frontend and tooling.

What is Xata working on?

Current projects include database branching, pgroll (migration tooling), pgstream, observability services and tooling, CI/CD automation, demo environment builders, and proof-of-value engagement design.

How this profile is built

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