Staff Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics | Sweden | Remote

grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote (EU)

30 days annual leave

In-person onboarding

Innovation-driven culture

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a staff-level backend engineer to help build the first production services for an AI-native data intelligence system. The role focuses on ingestion, indexing, retrieval APIs, and agent integrations, evolving prototypes into a production-grade multi-tenant SaaS.

This fully remote position is open to candidates in Sweden, Spain, the UK, Ireland, or Germany, emphasizes autonomy, open-source culture, and collaboration with product and infra teams to ensure reliability and

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience building and operating production backend services at staff or senior level.
• Strong programming skills in Go or a comparable backend language, with distributed systems expertise.
• Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS concerns such as isolation, quotas, audit logs, and background processing.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and operate the first production services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval orchestration, APIs, source configuration, and system administration
• Help shape the multi-tenant SaaS foundation, including tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, and background jobs
• Build APIs and service interfaces that let AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications retrieve context along with provenance, confidence signals, and warnings
• Partner with product and infrastructure colleagues to balance fast experimentation with long-term reliability as the system moves from prototype to production
• Instrument services for observability and take responsibility for operating what you build

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant SaaS

Communication

Job description

Role overview

A remote staff-level backend engineering position focused on building the first production services for an AI-native data intelligence system that gives AI agents governed access to enterprise context. The work spans ingestion, context indexing, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations, evolving from internal prototypes into a production-grade multi-tenant SaaS. The role is open to candidates based in Sweden, Spain, the UK, Ireland, or Germany, and sits on a small team that operates with high autonomy and an open-source-rooted culture.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and operate the first production services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval orchestration, APIs, source configuration, and system administration
• Help shape the multi-tenant SaaS foundation, including tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, and background jobs
• Build APIs and service interfaces that let AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications retrieve context along with provenance, confidence signals, and warnings
• Partner with product and infrastructure colleagues to balance fast experimentation with long-term reliability as the system moves from prototype to production
• Instrument services for observability and take responsibility for operating what you build

Requirements

• Significant professional experience building and operating production backend services, typically at staff or senior level
• Strong programming skills in Go or a comparable backend language, plus solid experience with distributed systems and service-based architectures
• Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS concerns such as isolation, quotas, audit logging, and background processing
• Comfort working through ambiguity, making pragmatic architectural decisions, and turning prototypes into reliable production systems
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

Nice to have

• Experience with context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, vector or semantic search, or knowledge-graph systems
• Background in observability, telemetry, or data infrastructure
• Open-source contributions or active engagement with developer communities
• Prior experience on small, high-autonomy teams or early-stage product builds

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote work within the eligible European countries
• 30 days of annual leave, with three reserved for company-wide shutdown days so the team can disconnect
• In-person onboarding at the start of employment
• A transparent, innovation-driven culture with defined career growth pathways and a globally distributed team