# Software Engineer - Insights

**Company:** [PlanetScale](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/planetscale)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $120k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Rust, Ruby, Python, Observability, Distributed Systems, Time-Series Data, Data Pipelines, MySQL, Postgres, Vitess, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Kafka
**Posted:** 2026-05-20

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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