Senior Backend Engineer – Databases

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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $164.5k - $197.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Grafana Labs

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in open-source observability technologies and solutions. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for logging, metrics, tracing, and profile management with products like Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir. Their offerings are designed to help businesses visualize, monitor, and alert on data from various sources, providing capabilities such as anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and service level objective management using AI/ML insights. Grafana Labs provides both cloud-based and self-managed solutions, ideal for infrastructure, application, and frontend observability. Additionally, their platform supports integration with various data sources like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, making them a key player in the observability and infrastructure monitoring space.

📋 Description

• Own technical direction on the hardest Tempo roadmap problems • Deliver significant multi-month technical projects from problem framing through rollout • Own components across ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation • Write and present design documents and participate in design reviews • Make trade-offs involving performance, cost, and complexity, and document decisions • Build structured, deterministic, discoverable APIs for humans, agents, products, and integrators • Own operational outcomes against SLOs such as P99 write latency, incident recurrence, and TCO per ingested GB • Improve automation, parameterized rollouts, actionable alerts, and Zero Ops practices • Collaborate with Product and App Observability, Asserts, Drilldown, and Grafana Assistant teams • Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, design feedback, and pairing • Participate in on-call, incident response, and post-incident learning • Engage the open-source community, review external contributions, and contribute to Tempo • Improve Tempo performance, autoscaling, query ranges, trace aggregation, customer limits, and multi-cell operations

🎯 Requirements

• Track record of delivering complex, multi-month projects spanning design, delivery, and operations • Significant hands-on experience building and operating distributed data systems in production • Experience with ingestion pipelines, storage engines, query execution, or similar systems • Strong software craftsmanship; clean, robust, and performant software development • Strong Go experience, or a path to Go; experience with Rust, C, or C++ translates well • Experience owning production services and carrying a pager • Experience reducing operational toil and treating SLOs as a product feature • Clear communication in a fully remote, asynchronous environment • Experience with tracing, OpenTelemetry, or large-scale observability systems is a bonus • Experience designing query languages, SQL/TraceQL-like engines, or programmatically consumed APIs is a bonus • Experience with columnar storage formats such as Parquet or purpose-built analytical on-disk formats is a bonus • Experience operating multi-tenant, multi-cell SaaS infrastructure at scale on Kubernetes is a bonus • Experience building for AI/LLM consumers is a bonus • Open-source contribution or maintainership is a bonus • Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo on-call usage is a bonus • Experience in a fully remote, globally distributed team is a bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants • Access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google • 100% remote, global culture • Career growth pathways • In-person onboarding • 30 days annual leave per annum • 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days