Senior Observability Engineer — Telemetry & Data Pipelines

PlanetScale; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

PlanetScale is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to build observability tooling for Vitess, MySQL and PostgreSQL. You will instrument systems to emit performance data, design data collection pipelines, and own features end-to-end from design through production deployment.

You’ll create intuitive dashboards and APIs that surface actionable insights for customers, collaborate across teams to define the next generation of observability features, and build tools for query analysis and anomaly

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building observability, monitoring, or telemetry products.
• 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 in self-directed environments.

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+ yrs exp

Observability tooling

Distributed systems

Time-series data

Backend development

Full stack proficiency

Tools

Prometheus

ClickHouse

Kafka

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Vitess

Job description

PlanetScale is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to build observability tooling for Vitess, MySQL and PostgreSQL. You will instrument systems to emit performance data, design data collection pipelines, and own features end-to-end from design through production deployment.

You’ll create intuitive dashboards and APIs that surface actionable insights for customers, collaborate across teams to define the next generation of observability features, and build tools for query analysis and anomaly