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Staff Backend Engineer – Mimir Query, Databases

🕒 August 18

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $186.4k - $223.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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First seen by Remote Rocketship August 18

Still open on Grafana Labs's site. Checked 4 hours ago.

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Grafana Labs

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

• Influence the roadmap and personal career objectives • Deliver new features and iterate based on results • Drive projects from initial idea through production operations • Contribute to open-source projects outside the team’s direct scope • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability • Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations and own running services • Support team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the squad • Improve performance and reliability through production operations • Write and review pull requests and design documents • Shepherd automated release rollouts • Learn the cloud product, customer needs, and large distributed-system codebase

🎯 Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language; familiarity with Go, Python, C, C++, Rust or similar • Experience leading and delivering projects from requirements gathering through customer delivery • Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering • Experience with on-call and the DevOps model • Experience writing clean, robust, performant, maintainable software • Familiarity with observability systems, including metrics, logs, and traces • Comfort with microservices architecture and distributed systems • Experience and comfort developing with LLMs like Claude and Codex • Strong collaboration, communication, and time management skills • Experience working with Kubernetes, queue systems such as Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, or infrastructure as code is a bonus • Candidates must be located in Canada; the posting also states USA time zones, which conflicts with the Canada-specific location and compensation

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus (if applicable) • Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants • Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google • 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

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