Software Engineer on PlanetScale's Insights team, building the customer-facing database observability product. Insights helps developers understand database performance and provides visibility into query patterns, performance metrics and database health across Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL systems. Fully remote (US). Base salary range $120,000 - $290,000.
Responsibilities
- ▹Instrument Vitess, MySQL and PostgreSQL to emit performance data
- ▹Design, implement and maintain the 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
Requirements
- ▹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
Soft skills
Deep understanding of developers' database performance debugging challengesStrong opinions on useful versus overwhelming telemetry dataEnjoys wearing many hats and working on diverse problems across the stackShips quickly and iterates based on feedbackCollaborates effectively with engineers in different domainsMakes pragmatic technical decisions and works independently with minimal direction
What we offer
- ▹Base salary range $120,000 - $290,000 USD
- ▹Total compensation: base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity