Software Engineer - Insights
PlanetScaleabout 4 hours ago
Remote, Worldwide 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 intuitive dashboards and visualizations for actionable insights.
- Develop APIs and integrations to expose insights data to customers.
- Collaborate with teams to define next-generation observability features.
- Build tools for query analysis, performance profiling, and anomaly detection.
- Own features end-to-end from design to production deployment.
- Partner with customers to understand observability challenges.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience building observability, monitoring, or telemetry products.
- Experience with distributed systems and data pipelines.
- Proficiency with time-series data and aggregation patterns.
- Backend development experience in Go, Rust, Ruby, Python, or similar.
- Comfort working across the full stack and switching technical domains.
- Ability to work in a self-directed environment.