Software Engineer - Insights
PlanetScale3 months 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 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 brings you the fastest Postgres and MySQL (Vitess) databases available in the cloud. Get horizontally sharded MySQL with Vitess, and sharded Postgres with Neki (coming soon). Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS, bringing data center performance to the cloud. We offer a range of deployment options to cover all of your security and compliance requirements — including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed.