Software Engineer - Insights

PlanetScale•San Francisco, CA

9d•$120,000 - $290,000

About The Position

PlanetScale is seeking an engineer to join our Insights team to help build our customer facing database observability product. Insights helps developers understand their database performance and provides visibility into query patterns, performance metrics and database health across both Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL systems.

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 Haves

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

Responsibilities

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