Software Engineer - Insights

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Instrument Vitess, MySQL and PostgreSQL to emit performance data
• ▹Design, implement and maintain the data collection pipeline
• ▹Create intuitive dashboards and visualizations
• ▹Develop APIs and integrations that expose insights data to customers
• ▹Collaborate with other teams to define next-gen observability features
• ▹Build tools for query analysis, performance profiling, anomaly detection
• ▹Own features end-to-end, from design through production deployment

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of software engineering experience
• ▹Experience building observability, monitoring or telemetry products (APM, logs, metrics, traces)
• ▹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 domains
• ▹Ability to work in a self-directed environment

Nice to have

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

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Base salary + variable comp + equity
• ▹Remote work
• ▹Diverse and inclusive culture

About the company

PlanetScale is a fast-growing database platform offering PostgreSQL and Vitess (MySQL) clusters. A profitable company built around small teams of p99 individuals.