Senior Backend Engineer, Distributed Databases (Go) - Remote

Grafana Labs; United States; Remote; USD 97,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Annual leave 30 days

Shutdown days

Job summary

Grafana Labs is a remote-first company building Grafana Cloud, an open observability platform that unifies metrics, logs and traces. The senior backend engineer for databases like Loki, Mimir and Tempo will help scale multi-tenant distributed systems on Kubernetes across major cloud providers, contributing to OSS projects and our Cloud service.

Strong Go background and cloud experience are valued. You will collaborate across global teams, participate in on-call rotations, and leverage modern AI

Responsibilities

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
• Supporting other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

Skills

Go

Python

C/C++

Rust

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Grafana Labs is a remote-first company building Grafana Cloud, an open observability platform that unifies metrics, logs and traces. The senior backend engineer for databases like Loki, Mimir and Tempo will help scale multi-tenant distributed systems on Kubernetes across major cloud providers, contributing to OSS projects and our Cloud service.

Strong Go background and cloud experience are valued. You will collaborate across global teams, participate in on-call rotations, and leverage modern AI