Software Engineer - Insights
PlanetScale5 months ago
Remote, United States or San Francisco, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$120k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Instrument Vitess, MySQL, and PostgreSQL to emit performance data.
- Design, implement, and maintain the data collection pipeline.
- Create dashboards and visualizations that surface actionable database insights.
- Develop APIs and integrations that expose insights data to customers.
- Build tools for query analysis, performance profiling, and anomaly detection.
- Own features from initial design through production deployment and monitoring.
- Collaborate with engineering teams, customers, and support teams to define and address database observability challenges.
Requirements
- At least five years of software engineering experience is required.
- Experience building observability, monitoring, or telemetry products such as APM, logs, metrics, or traces is required.
- Experience with distributed systems and data pipelines is required.
- Proficiency with time-series data and aggregation patterns is required.
- Backend development experience with Go, Rust, Ruby, Python, or similar technologies is required.
- Ability to work across the full stack, switch between technical domains, and work independently is required.
- Knowledge of ClickHouse, Prometheus, or other time-series databases is preferred.
- Familiarity with Kafka and other streaming data systems is preferred.
- Background in database internals or query optimization is preferred.
- Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Vitess is preferred.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About PlanetScale
PlanetScale provides a managed database platform for developers, offering MySQL-compatible (Vitess-based) and Postgres services with features like horizontal sharding and non-blocking schema changes, delivered as SaaS. The product targets teams running high-scale transactional workloads and modern application backends. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held, with customers including Block, Etsy, MyFitnessPal, Anysphere (Cursor), and Kick.