Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases | USA | Remote

grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 30 days

In-person onboarding

Remote work globally

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for a fully remote role on our platform query path for a multi-tenant cloud-hosted observability database handling metrics at hyperscale. You will collaborate with ingest and storage squads to evolve the OSS and managed cloud product across major clouds using Go and Kubernetes.

You will own reliability, performance, and on-call responsibilities while contributing to open-source initiatives and partnering with adjacent teams to push ideas from

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating distributed systems in Go.
• Experience running multi-tenant services on Kubernetes across major clouds.
• Hands-on work with high-volume telemetry or large-scale data systems.
• Ability to lead projects end-to-end and influence roadmaps.
• Comfort with on-call rotations and owning production services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and maintain services on the query path of a distributed metrics database, owning reliability, performance, and availability targets.
• Drive projects from initial concept through production rollout, often partnering with another engineer on larger initiatives.
• Write and review pull requests and design documents contributed by teammates across the squad.
• Shepherd automated release rollouts and participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations for the systems you support.
• Fold efficiency and resilience improvements discovered through production operations back into the codebase.
• Engage with adjacent open-source projects and contribute to initiatives beyond the team's immediate scope.

Skills

Go distributed systems

Kubernetes multi-tenant

Telemetry / large-scale data

Project leadership

On-call ownership

Tools

Prometheus

Job description

Role overview

A fully remote role is open for a Staff Backend Engineer to join a platform team focused on the query path of a multi-tenant, cloud-hosted observability database serving metrics workloads at hyperscale. The position partners with ingest and storage sub-teams to evolve an open-source metrics system, contributing to both the managed cloud product and the underlying OSS project. The work centers on performance-sensitive distributed systems implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across major cloud providers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and maintain services on the query path of a distributed metrics database, owning reliability, performance, and availability targets
• Drive projects from initial concept through production rollout, often partnering with another engineer on larger initiatives
• Write and review pull requests and design documents contributed by teammates across the squad
• Shepherd automated release rollouts and participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations for the systems you support
• Fold efficiency and resilience improvements discovered through production operations back into the codebase
• Engage with adjacent open-source projects and contribute to initiatives beyond the team's immediate scope

Requirements

• Substantial professional experience building and operating distributed systems in Go
• Background running multi-tenant services on Kubernetes, ideally across more than one major cloud provider
• Hands-on work with high-volume telemetry or large-scale data systems
• Ability to lead projects end-to-end and influence technical roadmap decisions
• Comfort participating in on-call rotations and taking ownership of production services in operation

Nice to have

• Familiarity with open-source observability tooling such as Prometheus and related query layers
• Prior contributions to open-source communities

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote work arrangement with team members distributed globally
• Annual leave entitlement of 30 days, including three reserved company-wide shutdown days
• In-person onboarding program designed to help new hires ramp up
• Transparent culture with defined career growth pathways, autonomy-driven team structure, and an open-source-rooted operating style