Senior Backend Engineer – Databases

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $154.4k - $185.3k / 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 difficult Tempo roadmap problems • Deliver multi-month technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout • Partner with Staff engineers and the tech lead on broader cross-team direction • 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 • Build structured, deterministic, discoverable APIs for humans, agents, products, and integrators • Own outcomes against SLOs such as P99 write latency, incident recurrence, and total cost per ingested GB • Automate operations through parameterized rollouts and actionable alerts • Collaborate with Product and sibling teams including App Observability, Asserts, Drilldown, and Grafana Assistant • Mentor engineers through code review, 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 trace aggregation, autoscaling, ingestion and query performance, multi-cell operations, and customer-facing limits

🎯 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, performant, maintainable software • Strong Go experience, or experience with Rust, C, or C++ as a path to Go • Experience owning production services and carrying a pager • Experience reducing operational toil and treating SLOs as a product feature • Customer focus and pragmatic iterative delivery • Clear writing and communication in a fully remote, asynchronous environment • Candidates must be based in the US or Canada

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Company-funded usage budget for AI coding assistants • Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google • 100% remote work and global remote culture • Career growth pathways • In-person onboarding • 30 days of annual leave per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days • Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates • Autonomy and support to ship great work • Empowered, high-trust, low-ego culture • Global annual leave policy, subject to local legislation