Software Engineer - Insights
San Francisco Bay Area or Remoteremotemid$120K – $290K
via Greenhouse
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.
What You'll Do
Instrument Vitess, MySQL and PostgreSQL to emit performance data
Design, implement and maintain our data collection pipeline…
What we'd score you on
reqspace match rubricFive dimensions, recruiter-grade. Upload your resume and we'll generate a written explanation of where you fit and where the gaps are.
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Skills match
For this role: python, go, rust, ruby, postgres…
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Level fit
This role is mid-level. We check your trajectory against it.
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Domain experience
Your work in the role's domain matters more than your years total. We weight recent and direct experience.
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Recency
A skill you used last quarter weighs more than one from five years ago. We grade on recency, not lifetime.
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Location fit
This role is remote-eligible — we factor in your stated location and time-zone overlap.
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Skills in this role
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