Senior Backend Engineer - AI Context Services (Remote)

Grafana

United States

Remote

USD 116,000 - 140,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

30 days annual leave

Grafana Shutdown Days (3 days)

Onboarding with Grafana team

Job summary

Grafana Labs is building an AI-native data intelligence system to empower agents with governed access to enterprise context. We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design and ship production-ready services for context ingestion, indexing, and retrieval, with emphasis on reliability and scale.

The role offers high autonomy on a remote team with strong collaboration, and opportunities to evolve the role as the product grows.

Qualifications

Experience building production-grade software used by real users.
Hands-on with AI technologies and practical AI frameworks.
Able to iterate quickly, release prototypes, and incorporate feedback.
Takes ownership to drive projects from concept to production.
Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

Design and ship core backend services for a context layer management system.
Define SaaS architecture for a multi-tenant environment with isolation and governance.
Build agent-facing retrieval workflows and APIs for AI agents and internal tools.
Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to balance speed and reliability.
Instrument services with metrics, logs, and observability to improve reliability.
Shape technical direction, deployment patterns, and engineering practices for a new product area.
Communicate effectively in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
Own AI solutions, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and alignment with user workflows.