Grafana Labs supports organizations’ monitoring, visualization and observability goals. 950,000+ active installations
Senior Backend Engineer – Databases
Location
Ireland
Posted
10 days ago
Salary
€104K - €124.8K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – Databases
Grafana Labs
• Lead projects from concept to rollout. • Design, build, and operate core components of a distributed database. • Wear the product hat. • Drive operational excellence. • Partner across Grafana. • Support your teammates through design conversations, code review, and pairing in a fully remote setup. • Participate in on-call (EMEA rotation) for the services you build. • Contribute to open source.
Job Requirements
- Solid experience with a systems language.
- Distributed systems in production.
- Product sense.
- Curiosity and courage.
- Strong software craftsmanship.
- Operational mindset.
- Pragmatism.
- Clear communication.
- Bonus Points For:
- Experience with profiling and performance engineering: flamegraphs, pprof, perf, or similar tooling.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry or large-scale observability systems.
- Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure at scale on Kubernetes.
- Experience building for AI/LLM consumers: structured APIs, metadata and discovery endpoints, deterministic outputs.
- Open-source contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the open.
- Experience as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Pyroscope, or similar in a previous role (or on a homelab).
- Experience in a fully remote, globally distributed team.
Benefits
- 100% Remote, Global Culture
- Scaling Organization
- Transparent Communication
- Innovation-Driven
- Open Source Roots
- Empowered Teams
- Career Growth Pathways
- Approachable Leadership
- Passionate People
- In-Person onboarding
- Balance is Key - global annual leave policy of 30 days
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