Grafana Labs supports organizations’ monitoring, visualization and observability goals. 950,000+ active installations
Senior Backend Engineer – Databases
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
£91.8K - £110.1K / 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 • Engage with customers directly and shape the roadmap • Drive operational excellence with SLOs and unit cost targets • Collaborate across teams to enhance product usability • Participate in on-call duties and contribute to incident response • Contribute to open source community and project steering
Job Requirements
- Solid experience with a systems language (Go, Rust, C, C++, Python, Java)
- Experience building and operating distributed systems in production
- Strong product sense and customer interaction skills
- Curiosity and courage to challenge the status quo
- Strong software craftsmanship and maintainable code writing
- Operational mindset with experience in SRE-style work
- Pragmatism in breaking complex problems into manageable tasks
- Clear communication in a fully remote setup
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 30 days annual leave
- Grafana Shutdown Days
- Global culture
- Transparent communication
- Opportunities for career growth
- In-person onboarding
- Developer productivity investment
- Modern AI coding assistants
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