Remote Sr Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Database & Analytics

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 112,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is a remote-friendly company building observability tools that empower teams to understand and act on real-time data across complex stacks. We’re pursuing AI-native data intelligence to give agents reliable access to enterprise context, while maintaining openness and interoperability.

The team operates with autonomy and ownership, valuing curiosity, feedback, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering skills and production-grade software experience.
• AI technologies with a real-world delivery mindset.
• Rapid iteration with pragmatic testing and feedback.
• Proven initiative, ownership, and ability to handle ambiguity.
• Collaborative mindset and cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

• Own design, implementation, testing, and operation of database components.
• Help define the architecture for a multi-tenant SaaS database service.
• Build APIs and interfaces for AI agents and internal tools to fetch data quickly.
• Collaborate with product and infra to balance experimentation with reliability.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards for reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems

AI experience

Go/C/C++/Rust

Cloud platforms

Observability tools

Team collaboration

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Grafana Labs is a remote-friendly company building observability tools that empower teams to understand and act on real-time data across complex stacks. We’re pursuing AI-native data intelligence to give agents reliable access to enterprise context, while maintaining openness and interoperability.

The team operates with autonomy and ownership, valuing curiosity, feedback, and cross-functional collaboration.