# Software Engineer - Insights at PlanetScale

- Company: PlanetScale
- What the company does: PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres. Backed by Insight, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.planetscale.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $120K to $290K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-01-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4107018009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/planetscale-software-engineer-insights/

## 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

Tags: Engineering