Software Engineer - Insights

PlanetScale
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 120,000 - 290,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Communication","Problem-solving","Independence"]

Join the Insights team to build PlanetScale’s customer-facing database observability product. You’ll instrument Vitess, MySQL and PostgreSQL, design data collection pipelines, create dashboards, develop APIs, and own features end-to-end to surface actionable database insights across Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL environments.

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PlanetScale
PlanetScale
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Software Engineer - Insights

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Job Summary

Join the Insights team to build PlanetScale’s customer-facing database observability product. You’ll instrument Vitess, MySQL and PostgreSQL, design data collection pipelines, create dashboards, develop APIs, and own features end-to-end to surface actionable database insights across Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL environments.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key 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

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 120,000 - 290,000 annually

Key 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)
Experience:5+ yearsDatabase observabilityDatabasesPostgreSQLVitessMySQLData pipelines
Skills:CollaborationCommunicationProblem-solvingIndependence
Languages:English
Tech Stack:VitessMySQLPostgreSQLGoRustRubyPythonPrometheusClickHouseKafka

Company Brief

PlanetScale
Provides a serverless, MySQL-compatible distributed database platform built on Vitess for developers and enterprises, enabling scalable, resilient, and cloud-native database operations with features like branching, zero-downtime schema changes, and multi-region deployment.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2018
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