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$120,000 – $290,000
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What this role is
PlanetScale is building database observability tools that help developers understand performance and query patterns across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Vitess. This role suits engineers with solid backend experience who have shipped monitoring or observability products before and enjoy working across the full stack.
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What they ask for
Required
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building observability, monitoring, or telemetry products
- Experience with distributed systems and data pipelines
- Proficiency with time-series data and aggregation patterns
- Backend development experience in Go, Rust, Ruby, Python or similar
- Ability to work across the full stack and switch between technical domains
- Self-directed work capability
Nice to have
- Knowledge of ClickHouse, Prometheus, or other time-series databases
- Familiarity with streaming data systems like Kafka
- Background in database internals or query optimization
- Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL or Vitess