Software Engineer, Database Observability & Insights

PlanetScale; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

PlanetScale is seeking a Software Engineer for its Insights team to build a customer-facing database observability product. This role involves developing APIs and dashboards for performance metrics and collaborating across teams to enhance database observability.

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years of experience in software engineering, particularly in observability tools. Benefits include a competitive salary range of $120,000 - $290,000 USD along with a supportive work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience building observability, monitoring, or telemetry products
• Experience with distributed systems and data pipelines

Responsibilities

• Instrument Vitess, MySQL and PostgreSQL to emit performance data
• Design, implement and maintain our data collection pipeline
• Create dashboards and visualizations for database insights

Skills

Software engineering experience

Building observability products

Distributed systems

Time-series data

Backend development (Go, Rust, Python)

Collaboration across teams

Tools

ClickHouse

Prometheus

Kafka

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Vitess

Job description

PlanetScale is seeking a Software Engineer for its Insights team to build a customer-facing database observability product. This role involves developing APIs and dashboards for performance metrics and collaborating across teams to enhance database observability.

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years of experience in software engineering, particularly in observability tools. Benefits include a competitive salary range of $120,000 - $290,000 USD along with a supportive work environment.