Staff Backend Engineer — Remote AI-Powered SaaS

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff-level Backend Engineer to design and ship production services for a new AI-native data context layer. You will own ingestion, storage, and retrieval APIs with multi-tenant SaaS foundations while ensuring observability and reliability across distributed systems.

Remote-friendly, fast-moving team values autonomy and collaboration. As part of an AI-driven initiative, you will impact data access, governance, and agent workflows, working with cloud-native environments

Qualifications

• Strong engineering experience building production-grade software systems.
• Experience with AI technologies and practical mindset for real-world delivery.
• Ability to release prototypes, collect feedback and iterate quickly.

Responsibilities

• Build core backend services for context ingestion, indexing, and retrieval APIs.
• Define and implement a scalable multi-tenant SaaS architecture.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards for reliability.

Skills

LLMs experience

Prompt engineering

GenAI applications

Observability tools

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff-level Backend Engineer to design and ship production services for a new AI-native data context layer. You will own ingestion, storage, and retrieval APIs with multi-tenant SaaS foundations while ensuring observability and reliability across distributed systems.

Remote-friendly, fast-moving team values autonomy and collaboration. As part of an AI-driven initiative, you will impact data access, governance, and agent workflows, working with cloud-native environments