Staff Backend Engineer – Mimir Query, Databases

🕒 August 18

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 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

• Influence the roadmap and personal career objectives • Work with the team to deliver new features and iteratively improve them • Drive projects from initial idea through operations for customers • Contribute to open-source projects beyond the team’s direct scope • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems • Own system reliability, performance, and availability • Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations and own operated services • Write and review pull requests and design documents • Shepherd automated release rollouts • Support teammates and participate in design discussions • Learn the cloud product, customer needs, and large distributed-system codebase

🎯 Requirements

• Candidates in USA time zones • 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 and using metrics, logs, and traces for debugging • Comfortable with microservices architecture and distributed systems • Experience and comfort developing with LLMs like Claude and Codex • Experience working with Kubernetes preferred as a bonus • Experience working with queue systems such as Kafka preferred as a bonus • Experience using Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles preferred as a bonus • Familiarity with infrastructure as code preferred as a bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus (if applicable) • Company-funded usage budget for 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