Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed Databases (Remote)

Grafana Labs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 91,000 - 1,110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus (if applicable)

Remote work

Job summary

Grafana Labs is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Loki Ingest databases in a remote-friendly setting. You will work on the Databases team to ensure scalable, multi-tenant services written in Go, deployed on Kubernetes and cloud providers.

The role emphasizes open-source collaboration, strong code review, and cross-team coordination with Prometheus and Grafana ecosystems. A strong focus on reliability and performance is required.

Qualifications

• Experience with at least one programming language; Go preferred, others like Python or C/C++ accepted.
• Experience delivering projects from requirements to shipping.
• Experience with cloud-based software or systems engineering.
• Ability to write robust, maintainable, well-documented code.

Responsibilities

• Influence roadmaps and align with team objectives.
• Deliver new features and iterate based on results.
• Drive projects from ideation to operations with customers.
• Contribute to open-source projects and internal initiatives.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems for reliability and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations and own the services you run.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud

Distributed systems

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Grafana Labs is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Loki Ingest databases in a remote-friendly setting. You will work on the Databases team to ensure scalable, multi-tenant services written in Go, deployed on Kubernetes and cloud providers.

The role emphasizes open-source collaboration, strong code review, and cross-team coordination with Prometheus and Grafana ecosystems. A strong focus on reliability and performance is required.