Software Engineer – Insights

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🕒 May 20

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $120k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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PlanetScale

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $50M Series C on 2021-11

SaaS • Enterprise

PlanetScale is a leading cloud database platform known for its scalability and reliability, specifically as an OLTP database that allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally. Leveraging Vitess, an open-source project developed at YouTube, PlanetScale powers Tier 0 databases with scalable, distributed data management solutions trusted by major global brands like GitHub, Slack, and HubSpot. The platform offers deployment options across multi-tenant and single-tenant clouds, providing every user with robust performance backed by automatic sharding, query routing, and compliance with high security standards (such as SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA). PlanetScale is tailored for enterprises requiring reliable, efficient, and high-performing database solutions at scale, with extensive support and integration capabilities.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• equity • benefits • flexible work arrangements