Staff Backend Engineer - Distributed Time-Series DB Remote

grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Annual leave 30 days + 3 shutdowns

In-person onboarding

Diversity & pay transparency by region

Job summary

grafanalabs is hiring a Staff-level backend engineer focused on the query path of large-scale, multi-tenant telemetry databases. You will design, build, and operate high-performance Go services that ingest, store, and query time-series data, with emphasis on reliability and scale.

You will lead end-to-end projects, drive query performance, participate in design and code reviews, and mentor teammates in a globally distributed engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems in Go.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Deep understanding of database internals, query execution, and storage engine optimization.
• Proven track record of driving complex technical projects to completion and influencing technical direction.
• Comfort with production operations, on-call responsibilities, and high-availability SaaS environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate distributed database services that handle metrics, logs, traces, and profiles at very large scale.
• Lead projects end-to-end, from initial concept through production deployment and ongoing customer operations.
• Drive query performance, efficiency, and reliability improvements informed by production telemetry and incident learnings.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and roadmap planning across the query sub-team and adjacent squads.
• Shepherd automated release rollouts and participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation for owned services.
• Mentor and support other engineers, contributing to a collaborative, low-ego engineering culture.
• Engage with the broader open-source community, including contributions to projects outside the immediate team scope.

Skills

Go backend engineering

Distributed systems

Production operations

On-call experience

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

grafanalabs is hiring a Staff-level backend engineer focused on the query path of large-scale, multi-tenant telemetry databases. You will design, build, and operate high-performance Go services that ingest, store, and query time-series data, with emphasis on reliability and scale.

You will lead end-to-end projects, drive query performance, participate in design and code reviews, and mentor teammates in a globally distributed engineering culture.