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Software Engineer – Insights
Location
California
Posted
137 days ago
Salary
$120K - $290K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Software Engineer – Insights
PlanetScale
• 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
Job 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.
Benefits
- equity
- benefits
- flexible work arrangements
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