Remote Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Powered Database & Analytics

grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restricted Stock Units

Fully remote role

In-person onboarding

Job summary

Grafana Labs is hiring for a senior role to build the storage layer of a new general-purpose database powering an AI-native data intelligence system. The team operates a high-autonomy skunkworks project across multiple cloud providers, with a focus on scalable ingestion, query planning, and storage formats.

You will own parts of the database, shape a multi-tenant architecture, and develop APIs for AI agents and internal tools.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience designing and building database internals such as query planning, distributed execution, ingestion pipelines, or storage formats.
• Experience building cloud-native systems that span multiple providers and separate compute from storage.
• Ability to write production-quality code in languages common to database or systems engineering work.
• Strong collaboration across product, infrastructure, and research teams and open-source values.

Responsibilities

• Own one or more parts of the database and design/operate ingestion, query planning, distributed execution, data formats, and storage formats.
• Define and ship architecture for a multi-tenant database service including isolation, quotas, audit logs, and background jobs.
• Build APIs and interfaces for AI agents, developer tools, and internal applications to retrieve context quickly.
• Collaborate with product and infra teams to balance rapid experimentation with reliability as the system moves to production.
• Operate the system with observability tooling and on-call readiness.
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions as the platform evolves from prototype to managed service.

Skills

Database internals

Cloud-native

Cross-team collaboration

Production-grade code

Job description

Grafana Labs is hiring for a senior role to build the storage layer of a new general-purpose database powering an AI-native data intelligence system. The team operates a high-autonomy skunkworks project across multiple cloud providers, with a focus on scalable ingestion, query planning, and storage formats.

You will own parts of the database, shape a multi-tenant architecture, and develop APIs for AI agents and internal tools.