Senior Database Engineer - AI-Driven Analytics Platform

Grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 72,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs, a remote-first company behind Grafana Cloud, seeks a Senior Software (Database) Engineer to build the storage layer for a general purpose data platform. You will design ingestion, storage formats, and query execution across cloud providers while emphasizing reliability and observability.

You will collaborate with a diverse team, iterate quickly, and shape the direction of a new product area. This role offers international remote work with strong growth potential.

Qualifications

• Production-grade software experience
• Experience with distributed systems
• Cloud-native environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Obs ervability tooling and instrumentation

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of database components: ingestion, query planning, distributed execution
• Define scalable multi-tenant architecture and tenancy isolation
• Build APIs for agent-facing data retrieval for AI tools
• Collaborate across product and infra, balancing experimentation with reliability
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards
• Contribute to architectural directions and API contracts
• Communicate effectively in a dynamic, cross-functional environment
• Hold ownership for scalable, maintainable database solutions

Skills

Golang

C++

Rust

Distributed systems

Observability

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

Grafana Labs, a remote-first company behind Grafana Cloud, seeks a Senior Software (Database) Engineer to build the storage layer for a general purpose data platform. You will design ingestion, storage formats, and query execution across cloud providers while emphasizing reliability and observability.

You will collaborate with a diverse team, iterate quickly, and shape the direction of a new product area. This role offers international remote work with strong growth potential.