Staff Backend Engineer – Mimir Query, Databases

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175k - $210k / year

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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 after customer release • Contribute to open-source projects beyond 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 operated services • Support team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team • Develop understanding of Grafana Cloud, customers, and a large distributed-system codebase • Write and review pull requests and design documents • Shepherd automated release rollouts • Optimize the efficiency and resilience of processing, storing, and querying metrics at scale

🎯 Requirements

• Candidates in USA time zones • Solid experience with at least one programming language; Go is used, with Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar accepted • Experience leading and delivering projects from requirements gathering through customer delivery • Experience developing cloud software or systems engineering • Experience with on-call and the DevOps model • Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software • Familiarity with observability systems and using metrics, logs, and traces for debugging • Comfort with microservices architecture and distributed systems • Experience and comfort developing with LLMs such as Claude and Codex • Pragmatic, self-driven, customer-focused approach with strong time management • Good communication and collaboration skills in a fully remote setup • Bonus: Kubernetes experience • Bonus: queue systems such as Kafka protocol • Bonus: Grafana and Prometheus operational experience • Bonus: infrastructure as code familiarity

🏖️ 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, global culture • Career growth pathways • In-person onboarding • 30 days of annual leave per annum • 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days