Senior Backend Engineer: Loki & Databases - Remote

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Performance bonus

Remote-friendly environment

Job summary

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is remote-first and globally distributed. The Senior Backend Engineer - Databases role focuses on Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope, building multi-tenant distributed systems in Go and running on Kubernetes across cloud providers.

Join a team that values open source, autonomy, and pragmatic AI-assisted development, with on-call rotations and opportunities to influence the product roadmap.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred).
• Experience delivering projects from requirements to shipping a product.
• Experience cloud or systems engineering.
• Experience writing clean, robust, and maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Influence roadmap and own career objectives.
• Deliver new features and iterate based on results.
• Drive projects from ideation to operations.
• Contribute to open-source projects and code reviews.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems for reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations.
• Learn and understand Grafana Cloud and codebase.

Skills

Go

Cloud experience

Distributed systems

On-call / SRE

Code quality

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is remote-first and globally distributed. The Senior Backend Engineer - Databases role focuses on Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope, building multi-tenant distributed systems in Go and running on Kubernetes across cloud providers.

Join a team that values open source, autonomy, and pragmatic AI-assisted development, with on-call rotations and opportunities to influence the product roadmap.