Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Native DB Platform (Remote)

grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a senior database platform engineer to build and own storage, ingestion, and query execution components for an AI-native data intelligence system. The role involves shaping a multi-tenant service that spans multiple cloud providers, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and scalable APIs for AI agents and developer tools.

You will collaborate across product, infrastructure, and research teams, balancing rapid experimentation with production-grade stability

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own one or more parts of the database, designing and operating ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, data formats, and storage formats.
• Help define and ship the architecture for a multi-tenant database service, including tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, and background jobs.
• Build APIs and database interfaces for AI agents, developer tools, and internal applications to retrieve context quickly.
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to balance rapid experimentation with long-term reliability as the system moves to production.
• Operate what is built, instrumenting systems for observability and on-call readiness.
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions as the system evolves from prototype to managed service.

Skills

Query planning

Distributed execution

Ingestion pipelines

Storage formats

Cloud-native systems

Production-quality code

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a senior database platform engineer to build and own storage, ingestion, and query execution components for an AI-native data intelligence system. The role involves shaping a multi-tenant service that spans multiple cloud providers, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and scalable APIs for AI agents and developer tools.

You will collaborate across product, infrastructure, and research teams, balancing rapid experimentation with production-grade stability