Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Databases, Loki Ingest

This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants from USA time zones only at this time.

Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Databases Loki Ingest

The Opportunity:

What is Grafana Cloud?

Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics logs and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus Mimir Loki and Tempo – without the overhead of installing maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.

The Databases team owns the telemetry databases that are Mimir for metrics Loki for logs Tempo for traces and Pyroscope for profiles . Our databases are OSS projects that we also offer as a Cloud service supporting Grafana Cloud and as an on-premise solution. They are multi-tenant distributed systems implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across all major Cloud service providers (GCP Azure AWS). We also have engineers working on Prometheus Grafana Agent Mimir proxies and OpenTelemetry.

As a company we are remote-first and global we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software. Our tech stack is mostly made up of services written in Go running on multiple Kubernetes clusters that leverage Cloud object storage.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives

• Work with your team to deliver new features then use the results to iterate and improve.

• Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers

• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope

• Design build operate and maintain critical systems owning the reliability performance and availability

• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running

• Mentor and support other team members participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team

• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action

• You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs

• Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze design and build modular solutions deliver MVPs gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively

• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must

Requirements:

• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go but if you have familiarity with Python C C++ Rust or similar then that translates well

• Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way

• Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering

• Some experience running complex distributed systems at scale

• Experience writing clean robust and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Bonus Points For:

• Experience working with Kubernetes

• Experience running kafka at scale

• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)

• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems or a desire to learn

• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

Compensation & Rewards:

In the United States the Base compensation range for this role is USD 174986- USD 209983. Actual compensation may vary based on level experience and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here .

All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.