Staff Backend Engineer, AI Context & Data Systems

Grafana Labs; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% Remote

Global culture

Equity

30 days annual leave

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help build the first production services for our AI-enabled context layer. You’ll design core backend architecture powering ingestion, storage, retrieval APIs, and agent integrations on a remote-first, globally distributed team.

You’ll operate with autonomy, ship pragmatic solutions, and collaborate across product and infra to balance speed and reliability, while shaping the future of observability-powered AI at Grafana Labs.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering skills: production-grade, user-facing software.
• AI experience with a practical mindset: AI technologies and frameworks.
• Quick iteration and experimentation: prototype release and feedback.
• Proven initiative and ownership.
• Collaborative attitude and communication.
• LLMs, prompt engineering, GenAI applications.
• Cloud-native environments: AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Observability tools experience.

Responsibilities

• Build the core backend services for context ingestion, indexing, and retrieval.
• Create a scalable SaaS foundation with multi-tenant architecture, quotas and audit logs.
• Power agent-facing retrieval workflows with APIs for AI agents and internal tools.
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure to balance rapid experimentation and reliability.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards.
• Contribute to architecture, storage, APIs, and deployment decisions.
• Communicate effectively across teams in a dynamic environment.
• Own AI solutions, ensuring they’re scalable and valuable for users.

Skills

Backend engineering

AI/GenAI experience

Prototype iteration

Ownership & initiative

Collaborative communication

LLMs & prompt engineering

Cloud-native AWS/GCP/Azure

Observability tools

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Looker

Tableau

PowerBI

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help build the first production services for our AI-enabled context layer. You’ll design core backend architecture powering ingestion, storage, retrieval APIs, and agent integrations on a remote-first, globally distributed team.

You’ll operate with autonomy, ship pragmatic solutions, and collaborate across product and infra to balance speed and reliability, while shaping the future of observability-powered AI at Grafana Labs.