Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed DB & Profiling Remote

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is scaling its Pyroscope effort as a remote-friendly team member focused on building a high-performance, Open Source profiling database that integrates with Grafana's observability stack. You will work on ingestion, storage, and query components, driving efficiency and cost savings while collaborating across teams.

This role emphasizes customer-oriented product sense and end-to-end ownership. The position supports remote work across international locations, with on-call

Qualifications

• Proficient in Go and distributed systems design.
• Ability to translate customer pain points into deliverables without a PM.
• Experience operating cloud services in multi-tenant environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects end to end from concept to rollout.
• Design, build, and operate core components of a distributed database (ingestion, storage, query).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Grafana to integrate Pyroscope with other stacks.
• Own outcomes against SLOs, automate toil, and contribute to incident response.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

Product sense

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Grafana Labs is scaling its Pyroscope effort as a remote-friendly team member focused on building a high-performance, Open Source profiling database that integrates with Grafana's observability stack. You will work on ingestion, storage, and query components, driving efficiency and cost savings while collaborating across teams.

This role emphasizes customer-oriented product sense and end-to-end ownership. The position supports remote work across international locations, with on-call