[Remote] Software Engineer - Insights
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PlanetScale is reinventing the database space with a platform offering Postgres and Vitess clusters for large-scale data workloads. The Software Engineer will join the Insights team to build customer-facing database observability products, including data collection pipelines, dashboards, APIs, query analysis tools, and anomaly detection capabilities.
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
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Variable compensation where appropriate
- Benefits
- Equity
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