Remote Staff Backend Engineer – AI Context Layer

Grafana Labs; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus (if applicable)

Remote work (Global)

30 days annual leave

Grafana Shutdown Days (3)

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff-level Backend Engineer to build the first production services for a context layer management system powering AI-driven data intelligence. You’ll design core backend architecture for ingestion, storage, and agent-facing APIs, operating in a high-autonomy, remote-first environment.

You’ll contribute across product and infra, ensure reliability with observability, and shape deployment patterns while expanding the role as the team grows.

Qualifications

• Strong background building production-grade software
• Hands-on experience with AI technologies and GenAI
• Comfort delivering prototypes and iterating quickly
• Ability to own projects and push for impactful solutions
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration
• Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, GenAI apps
• Proven track record of shipping production software
• Experience in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Responsibilities

• Build the core backend services for the context layer ingestion, indexing, retrieval, and APIs
• Define and implement a scalable multi-tenant SaaS foundation
• Develop agent-facing retrieval workflows and integrations
• Collaborate with product and infra teams to balance speed and reliability
• Instrument services with observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards
• Contribute to architecture, storage, API contracts and deployment patterns
• Communicate effectively in a dynamic, collaborative environment
• Own the AI solutions and ensure they are scalable and maintainable

Skills

Strong engineering

AI experience

Iteration

Initiative

Collaboration

LLMs & GenAI

Production software

Cloud-native

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff-level Backend Engineer to build the first production services for a context layer management system powering AI-driven data intelligence. You’ll design core backend architecture for ingestion, storage, and agent-facing APIs, operating in a high-autonomy, remote-first environment.

You’ll contribute across product and infra, ensure reliability with observability, and shape deployment patterns while expanding the role as the team grows.