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PlanetScale · 19 hours ago

Software Engineer - Insights

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$120K/yr - $290K/yr
date5+ years exp

PlanetScale is a rapidly growing company reinventing the database space, seeking an engineer for their Insights team to build a customer-facing database observability product. The role involves designing and maintaining data collection pipelines, creating dashboards, and developing APIs to enhance database performance visibility.

DatabaseInformation TechnologySaaSSoftware
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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Observability productsDistributed systemsBackend developmentTime-series dataData pipelinesSelf-directed workCollaborationProblem-solving

Required

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

Preferred

Knowledge of ClickHouse, Prometheus, or other time-series databases
Familiarity with streaming data systems (Kafka)
Background in database internals or query optimization
Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL or Vitess

Company

PlanetScale

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PlanetScale builds a database-as-a-service offering on Vitess, an open source sharding middleware system for MySQL.
dateFounded in 2018
location
Mountain View, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
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http://planetscale.com/

H1B Sponsorship

PlanetScale has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2021 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$105M
Key Investors
Kleiner PerkinsInsight PartnersAndreessen Horowitz
2021-11-16Series C· $50M
2021-06-06Series B· $30M
2019-05-23Series A· $22M

Leadership Team

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Sam Lambert
Co-founder/CEO
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Jitendra Vaidya
Co-Founder & CSO
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