planetscale
Software Engineer - Insights
At a Glance
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area or
- Work Regime
- remote
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Compensation
- w process. Base salary range: $120,000 - $290,000 USD
- Posted
- 2026-05-20T16:34:43-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
- SaaS
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
Compensation & Benefits
An employee's total compensation consists of base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to answer any further questions when we engage with you to begin the interview process.
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