Senior Backend Engineer – Distributed Databases (Remote)

Grafanalabs; Town of Sweden (NY); Remote; USD 81,289 - 101,638; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs, the company behind Grafana Cloud, is a remote-first organization with a global team and a deep commitment to open source culture. The Databases group manages OSS telemetry databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) and cloud/on-premise services, built with Go and Kubernetes across major cloud providers.

The Senior Backend Engineer - Databases role focuses on building and operating critical systems, improving reliability and performance, and contributing to open source projects.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred).
• Some experience delivering projects from requirements to shipping a product.
• Experience with cloud environments or systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Influence roadmaps and drive your career objectives.
• Collaborate with your team to deliver new features and iterate based on results.
• Take ownership of projects from ideation to customer delivery and operations.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain reliable, scalable services; participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Go

Python/C/C++/Rust familiarity

Cloud experience

On-call / SRE experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Grafana Labs, the company behind Grafana Cloud, is a remote-first organization with a global team and a deep commitment to open source culture. The Databases group manages OSS telemetry databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) and cloud/on-premise services, built with Go and Kubernetes across major cloud providers.

The Senior Backend Engineer - Databases role focuses on building and operating critical systems, improving reliability and performance, and contributing to open source projects.