Software Engineer, Database Insights & Observability

PlanetScale; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

PlanetScale is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Insights team to build our customer facing database observability product. Insights helps developers understand database performance across Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL.

You will instrument databases, design data pipelines, create dashboards, expose APIs, and own features end-to-end, working across the stack and collaborating with customers to address real-world observability challenges.

Qualifications

• 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 in 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.

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 exp

Observability

Distributed systems

Time-series data

Backend development

Full stack

Self-directed

Tools

ClickHouse

Prometheus

Kafka

Query optimization

MySQL/PostgreSQL/Vitess

Job description

PlanetScale is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Insights team to build our customer facing database observability product. Insights helps developers understand database performance across Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL.

You will instrument databases, design data pipelines, create dashboards, expose APIs, and own features end-to-end, working across the stack and collaborating with customers to address real-world observability challenges.