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Software Engineer - Insights

PlanetScale · San Francisco Bay Area or Remote · Remote

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About PlanetScale

PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres. Backed by Insight, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.

About the role

PlanetScale is seeking an engineer to join our Insights team to help build our customer facing database observability product. Insights helps developers understand their database performance and provides visibility into query patterns, performance metrics and database health across both Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL systems.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads — without sacrificing developer experience.

PlanetScale is seeking an engineer to join our Insights team to help build our customer facing database observability product. Insights helps developers understand their database performance and provides visibility into query patterns, performance metrics and database health across both Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL systems.

  • 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...

Read the full posting on PlanetScale's site ↗

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