Senior Backend Engineer – Remote (Mimir, Databases)

Far Coder; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Mimir Query, Databases, remote in the USA. You will design, build, and operate critical distributed systems, focusing on reliability, performance, and scalability.

You will influence the roadmap, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and own features from idea to production while working in a fully remote, async-friendly environment with strong emphasis on open-source culture.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services in distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with observability tools.
• Strong collaboration in remote, async teams.

Responsibilities

• Influence roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Deliver new features with your team and iterate based on results.
• Drive projects from initial idea to production and operations.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems with reliability and performance.
• Be on-call and support the services you run; collaborate with teammates.

Skills

Kubernetes

Kafka

Python

Rust

Go

AWS

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Mimir Query, Databases, remote in the USA. You will design, build, and operate critical distributed systems, focusing on reliability, performance, and scalability.

You will influence the roadmap, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and own features from idea to production while working in a fully remote, async-friendly environment with strong emphasis on open-source culture.