Senior Backend Engineer – Databases, Analytics
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Senior Backend Engineer building Grafana Labs’ AI-native database platform for enterprise observability. Designing distributed storage, query, and retrieval systems for production SaaS.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, test, and operate database components including ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, data formats, and storage formats
- Help define and build a multi-tenant database service with tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries
- Build APIs and database interfaces for AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve data quickly
- Balance rapid experimentation with long-term reliability as the project moves from prototype to production
- Instrument database services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards
- Use observability tools to understand system behavior and improve reliability
- Shape architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices
- Take ownership of scalable, maintainable database solutions aligned with real user workflows
- Collaborate across product, infrastructure, and engineering teams
Requirements:
- Strong experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems
- Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks
- Experience with distributed systems, catalogs and table formats, and query engines
- Mastery of a programming language like Golang, C++, or Rust
- Proven track record of delivering software used in production
- Exposure to cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior
- Ability to tackle complex engineering problems and make design decisions with minimal supervision
- Ability to work through ambiguity and define scope where requirements are loosely defined
- Effective communication and collaboration skills
Benefits:
- Equity
- Bonus (if applicable)
- 100% remote, global culture
- Career growth pathways
- In-person onboarding
- 30 days annual leave per annum
- 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
- Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates
- Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things
- High-trust, low-ego culture
- Approachable, transparent leadership
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