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Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs supports organizations’ monitoring, visualization and observability goals. 950,000+ active installations

Senior Backend Engineer – Databases

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 501-1,000Since 2014H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

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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