Senior Backend Engineer - Pyroscope DB Platform (Remote)

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

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Engineer to advance Pyroscope, the open-source continuous profiling database behind Grafana Cloud Profiles. You will own meaningful projects end to end, helping shape the roadmap for ingestion, storage, and query components.

This remote-first role supports candidates in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Ireland, requiring solid experience with distributed systems and Go, and collaboration across Grafana squads to broaden profiling adoption for engineers and

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go and distributed systems.
• Experience contributing to open source projects.
• Strong communication and collaboration with customers and teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end projects for Pyroscope, from concept to rollout.
• Design, build, and operate core database components: ingestion, storage, and query.
• Collaborate across Grafana squads to integrate profiling into workflows.
• Drive operational excellence with clear SLOs and cost targets.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident reviews.
• Engage with the OSS community and review external contributions.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Open source contributions

Customer interaction

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Engineer to advance Pyroscope, the open-source continuous profiling database behind Grafana Cloud Profiles. You will own meaningful projects end to end, helping shape the roadmap for ingestion, storage, and query components.

This remote-first role supports candidates in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Ireland, requiring solid experience with distributed systems and Go, and collaboration across Grafana squads to broaden profiling adoption for engineers and