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About the role
- Senior backend engineer building distributed database infrastructure for Grafana Labs’ AI-native data platform. Supporting Grafana Cloud, the observability platform used by 10,000+ organizations.
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 scalable multi-tenant SaaS database architecture 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
- Partner across product and infrastructure to balance experimentation with long-term reliability
- 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
- Own database solutions and ensure they are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with user workflows
Requirements
- Solid experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems
- Self-starter capable of tackling complex engineering problems and making design decisions with minimal supervision
- Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks
- Experience with distributed systems, catalogs and table formats, and query engines
- Mastery of a programming language such as Golang, C++, or Rust
- Proven track record of delivering software into production and active user use
- Exposure to cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior
- Experience building distributed query engines (bonus)
- Experience building data warehouses and/or data lakes (bonus)
- Experience building tools for data engineering (bonus)
- Ability to communicate effectively and contribute across teams
- Ability to work through ambiguity, take ownership, and make pragmatic architectural decisions
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 100% remote, remote-only company
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career
- In-Person onboarding
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum
- 3 days of annual leave 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 that values outcomes over optics
- Approachable, transparent leadership
- Global annual leave policy complying with local legislation where applicable
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