Software Engineer – Insights

PlanetScale

Software Engineer on Insights team at PlanetScale building database observability tools. Collaborating on customer-facing products for Vitess and PostgreSQL systems.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $120,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoMySQLPostgresPythonRubyRustSwitching

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

equity
benefits
flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

VitessMySQLPostgreSQLAPIsdata collection pipelinequery analysisperformance profilinganomaly detectionGoRust

Soft Skills

collaborationself-directedproblem-solving