Software Engineer - Insights

PlanetScale is a rapidly growing company reinventing the database space, offering innovative solutions for database observability. They are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Insights team, responsible for building a customer-facing product that provides visibility into database performance and health across various systems.

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

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
• Knowledge of ClickHouse, Prometheus, or other time-series databases
• Familiarity with streaming data systems (Kafka)
• Background in database internals or query optimization
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL or Vitess