Staff Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Context (Remote)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 141,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is scaling its context layer project with a Staff-level Backend Engineer. You will design and ship core backend architecture powering ingestion, storage, and retrieval, while enabling AI agents to access governed data across the enterprise.

This is a remote, async-friendly role that values autonomy and collaboration. Experience with cloud-native systems, LLMs, observability, and production-grade software will help you thrive as we

Qualifications

• Strong engineering skills with production-grade software experience.
• Hands-on experience with AI technologies and practical ML workflows.
• Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, and GenAI-powered apps.
• Comfort with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and operate backend services for context ingestion, indexing, and retrieval.
• Build multi-tenant SaaS foundations with isolation, quotas, and observability.
• Create APIs and interfaces for AI agents and internal tools to access context data.
• Collaborate across product and infra to balance speed and reliability.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, and tracing for reliability.

Skills

Production-grade software

AI experience

Cloud-native

Observability tools

LLMs / GenAI

Communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is scaling its context layer project with a Staff-level Backend Engineer. You will design and ship core backend architecture powering ingestion, storage, and retrieval, while enabling AI agents to access governed data across the enterprise.

This is a remote, async-friendly role that values autonomy and collaboration. Experience with cloud-native systems, LLMs, observability, and production-grade software will help you thrive as we