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Xata.io Tech Stack

Postgres branching and data anonymization platform for pull requests

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

Xata wraps vanilla PostgreSQL with instant branching and anonymized production-data cloning—removing staging bottlenecks for developers. The stack reveals infrastructure focus (Kubernetes, Pulumi, Ceph, OpenEBS) and multi-cloud portability (AWS, GCP, Azure). They're actively replacing managed Postgres services (RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL) with their own platform, while hiring heavily in engineering and design across Europe and the US—a signal of scaling both product and go-to-market simultaneously.

Tech Stack 27 technologies

Core StackPostgreSQL AWS Kubernetes GitHub Slack Figma Next.js Tailwind CSS AWS RDS Pulumi Python Go TypeScript Rust GitHub Actions Docker Notion Azure GCP Aurora Cloud SQL Azure SQL Database Ceph OpenEBS C
ReplacingAWS RDS Aurora Cloud SQL Azure SQL Database Neon

What Xata.io Is Building

Challenges

  • Make postgres scalable for ai-era applications
  • Simplifying hard architectural problems
  • Eliminate staging pain
  • Speed up development
  • Reducing time to market
  • Postgres scalability
  • Scaling postgres for ai
  • Operational complexity
  • Customers time to market
  • Zero-downtime schema changes

Active Projects

  • Observability stack
  • Implement ci/cd automation
  • Build scalable observable services
  • Visual brand system evolution
  • Marketing assets design
  • Pgroll open-source project
  • Product launch support
  • Postgres database platform
  • Database platform for companies that rely on postgresql at scale
  • Build migration tooling

Hiring Activity

Accelerating30 roles · 20 in 30d

Department

Engineering
18
Design
10

Seniority

Senior
16
Mid
7
Staff
5
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About Xata.io

Xata is a Postgres platform-as-a-service company founded in 2020, based in San Francisco with ~11–50 employees. The product runs on vanilla PostgreSQL across AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premises, exposed as SaaS or self-hosted in a customer's own cloud. Core functionality centers on instant database branches—typically for pull requests—paired with anonymized production data, reducing staging time and schema-migration risk. The company is addressing a specific developer pain point: the operational overhead and time cost of preparing realistic test environments.

HeadquartersSan Francisco
Company Size11–50 employees
Founded2020
Hiring MarketsGermany, Spain, Denmark, Ireland, Romania, United Kingdom, Sweden, Portugal

Frequently Asked Questions

What tech stack does Xata use?

PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure for infrastructure, Next.js for frontend, TypeScript and Go for services, plus orchestration tools like Pulumi and container storage (Ceph, OpenEBS).

What is Xata working on?

The product roadmap includes pgroll (open-source migration tooling), observability stack improvements, CI/CD automation, and scaling Postgres for AI-workload use cases. Design team is evolving the visual brand system.

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