Senior Backend Engineer – Databases, Analytics

🕒 September 22

🌐 Germany, Spain, +3 more countries – Remote

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇸🇪 Sweden – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote

💵 €97k - €121k / 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

• Design, implement, test, and operate database components including ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, data formats, and storage formats • Define and build architecture for a multi-tenant database service, including tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries • Build APIs and database interfaces for AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve data quickly • Partner across product and infrastructure teams to balance experimentation with long-term reliability • Instrument database services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards • Use observability tools to understand system behavior and improve reliability • Shape architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices • Take ownership of scalable, maintainable database solutions aligned with user workflows

🎯 Requirements

• Solid experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems • Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks • Experience with distributed systems, catalogs and table formats, and query engines • Mastery of a programming language such as Golang, C++, or Rust • Proven track record of delivering production software actively used by users • Exposure to cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure • Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior • Experience building distributed query engines, data warehouses/data lakes, or data engineering tools is a bonus • Effective communication and ability to collaborate across teams • Ability to work autonomously, make design decisions, handle ambiguity, and iterate pragmatically

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus (if applicable) • 100% remote work • Career growth pathways • In-person onboarding • 30 days of annual leave per annum • 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days • Global annual leave policy • Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates • Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things