Remote Senior Backend Engineer — Databases & Analytics

grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote position

Equity-based compensation

Generous annual leave (around 30 days)

In-person onboarding

Job summary

grafanalabs is seeking a senior backend engineer to build the storage and database layers for an analytics platform that blends OLAP queries with low-latency telemetry ingestion. The role underpins an AI-native data intelligence system designed for enterprise governance, with a multi-tenant SaaS maturity pathway.

You will shape end-to-end database components, collaborate with product and infra, and ensure scalable, reliable operations across cloud providers as the system evolves to production.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience designing and operating distributed database or storage systems.
• Familiarity with both OLAP and OLTP workloads, query planning, and distributed execution.
• Comfort working with separated compute and storage architectures on public cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity in an early-stage environment and make pragmatic architecture calls.
• A collaborative, feedback-oriented approach to cross-functional work.

Responsibilities

• Own parts of the database end-to-end: design, implement, test, and operate ingestion pipelines, query planners, distributed query execution, data formats, and on-disk storage formats.
• Help shape a multi-tenant SaaS foundation, including tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries.
• Build APIs and database interfaces that let AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications retrieve governed data quickly and consistently.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs between fast experimentation and long-term reliability as the system moves from internal dogfooding to production.
• Partner with product and infrastructure teammates on architectural decisions that support running across multiple cloud providers with separated compute and storage.

Job description

grafanalabs is seeking a senior backend engineer to build the storage and database layers for an analytics platform that blends OLAP queries with low-latency telemetry ingestion. The role underpins an AI-native data intelligence system designed for enterprise governance, with a multi-tenant SaaS maturity pathway.

You will shape end-to-end database components, collaborate with product and infra, and ensure scalable, reliable operations across cloud providers as the system evolves to production.