Staff Backend Engineer — Remote (AI Context Platform)

Grafana; Ireland; Remote; EUR 118,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is building AI-native data intelligence to empower agents and data teams. As a Staff‑level Backend Engineer, you will design and ship production services for a context layer management system, enabling ingestion, storage, retrieval, and agent integrations.

This remote role offers high autonomy, collaboration across teams, cloud‑native environments, observability practices, and opportunities to shape architecture as the project evolves toward production‑grade SaaS.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering skills building production-grade software
• Experience with AI technologies and practical implementations
• Exposure to cloud-native environments and observability tools

Responsibilities

• Build the core backend services for context ingestion and indexing
• Define SaaS foundations including tenant isolation & quotas
• Develop agent-facing retrieval APIs and integrations
• Balance fast experimentation with long-term reliability
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, and traces

Skills

Backend engineering

Production-grade software

AI / GenAI experience

LLMs / prompt engineering

Observability practices

Cloud-native environments

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Grafana Labs is building AI-native data intelligence to empower agents and data teams. As a Staff‑level Backend Engineer, you will design and ship production services for a context layer management system, enabling ingestion, storage, retrieval, and agent integrations.

This remote role offers high autonomy, collaboration across teams, cloud‑native environments, observability practices, and opportunities to shape architecture as the project evolves toward production‑grade SaaS.