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PlanetScalePlanetScaleSan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer - Insights

Build customer-facing database observability product for Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL, including data collection pipelines, dashboards, query analysis, and performance profiling tools. Requires 5+ years experience and observability/monitoring background.

120k – 290k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Instrument Vitess, MySQL and PostgreSQL to emit performance data
  • Design, implement and maintain our data collection pipeline
  • Create intuitive dashboards and visualizations that surface actionable database insights
  • Develop APIs and integrations that expose insights data to customers
  • Collaborate with other teams to define the next generation of database observability features
  • Build tools for query analysis, performance profiling, and anomaly detection
  • Own features end-to-end, from initial design through production deployment and monitoring
  • Partner with customers and support teams to understand real-world observability challenges

What We're Looking For

Required:

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Experience building observability, monitoring, or telemetry products (APM, logs, metrics, traces, etc.)
  • Experience with distributed systems and data pipelines
  • Proficiency with time-series data and aggregation patterns
  • Backend development experience (Go, Rust, Ruby, Python, or similar)
  • Comfort working across the full stack and switching between different technical domains
  • Ability to work in a self-directed environment

Nice to Have:

  • Knowledge of ClickHouse, Prometheus, or other time-series databases
  • Familiarity with streaming data systems (Kafka)
  • Background in database internals or query optimization
  • Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL or Vitess

Skills

GoRustRubyPythonObservabilityDistributed SystemsTime-Series DataData PipelinesMySQLPostgresVitessClickHousePrometheusKafka

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