Staff Backend Engineer, Context & AI Data (Remote)

Engg; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is hiring a Staff-level Backend Engineer to build production-ready back-end services for a new AI-native context layer. You will design scalable, multi-tenant architectures and APIs that empower AI agents and internal tools to access enterprise context.

You’ll operate and instrument the services for reliability while collaborating across product and infrastructure teams. The role emphasizes autonomy, pragmatic decision-making, and a strong engineering culture, with opportunities to

Qualifications

• Production-grade software development experience.
• Strong AI experience with practical mindset.
• Ability to iterate prototypes and gather feedback.
• Excellent collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship core backend services for the context layer management system.
• Define scalable, multi-tenant SaaS architecture and governance.
• Build APIs for agent-facing retrieval workflows and integrations.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, and dashboards for reliability.
• Partner with product and infra to balance experimentation with long-term reliability.
• Contribute to architectural direction and engineering best practices.

Skills

Production-grade software

Self-starter

UI design decisions

AI experience

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Fast iteration

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Grafana Labs is hiring a Staff-level Backend Engineer to build production-ready back-end services for a new AI-native context layer. You will design scalable, multi-tenant architectures and APIs that empower AI agents and internal tools to access enterprise context.

You’ll operate and instrument the services for reliability while collaborating across product and infrastructure teams. The role emphasizes autonomy, pragmatic decision-making, and a strong engineering culture, with opportunities to