Staff Backend Engineer for AI Context Layer

Grafana Labs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 103,958 - 124,750; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus (if applicable)

Remote-first

Job summary

Grafana Labs in the United Kingdom seeks a Staff-level Backend Engineer to design and ship core backend services for a new AI-native data context system. You will own ingestion, indexing, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations in a high-autonomy team, evolving from prototype to production-grade SaaS.

You should be comfortable with ambiguity, drive pragmatic architecture decisions, and collaborate across product and infrastructure to ensure reliability and scalability.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background with production-grade software experience.
• Experience in cloud-native architectures and scalable systems.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM integration and observability practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship core backend services for context ingestion and retrieval.
• Build a scalable multi-tenant SaaS foundation with robust security and observability.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
• Collaborate across product and infrastructure to balance speed and reliability.

Skills

Backend engineering

Production-grade software

Cloud-native environments

LLMs & GenAI

Observability tooling

Strong communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Grafana Labs in the United Kingdom seeks a Staff-level Backend Engineer to design and ship core backend services for a new AI-native data context system. You will own ingestion, indexing, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations in a high-autonomy team, evolving from prototype to production-grade SaaS.

You should be comfortable with ambiguity, drive pragmatic architecture decisions, and collaborate across product and infrastructure to ensure reliability and scalability.