[Remote] Staff Backend Engineer - Databases reputed company | US | Remote

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company, reputed company behind the reputed company-reputed company reputed company reputed company tracing backend and Grafana reputed company observability platform, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help reputed company reputed company into a reputed company platform for observability products and AI-driven workflows. The role involves setting technical direction, leading reputed company initiatives, owning reputed company architecture, improving operational reputed company and reputed company, mentoring engineers, partnering across teams, participating in on-reputed company, and contributing to reputed company reputed company.

Responsibilities

• reputed company multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout, e.g., reputed company aggregation reputed company, reputed company reputed company, autoscaling cells and customer limits, or query reputed company improvements
• Own the architecture of reputed company reputed company components: ingestion, storage, query, and metrics reputed company. reputed company design reviews, reputed company reputed company trade-offs on reputed company, cost, and complexity, and document the “why” for reputed company
• Design reputed company for humans and agents. Shape the reputed company of reputed company’s interfaces (reputed company, deterministic, discoverable) so that reputed company 3 products, LLM-driven assistants, and reputed company integrators can build on reputed company reliably
• reputed company operational reputed company. Own reputed company against concrete SLOs (P99 write latency, incident recurrence, TCO per ingested GB) and reputed company reputed company toward reputed company Ops through automation, parameterized rollouts, and actionable alerts
• Partner with Product and sibling teams. Work closely with PMs and with App Observability, Asserts, Drilldown, and Grafana Assistant teams to understand how reputed company gets consumed and to ship what unblocks them
• Mentor engineers. reputed company the engineering bar through reputed company review, design feedback, pairing on hard problems, and writing that leaves reputed company smarter than you reputed company it
• Participate in on-reputed company for the services you help build, and be a force reputed company in incident response and post-incident learning
• Contribute to reputed company reputed company. reputed company is OSS. You will engage the community, review reputed company contributions, and help reputed company the project in the reputed company

Skills

• This is a remote position. We are seeking candidates in US and Canada
• A reputed company record of leading reputed company, multi-quarter initiatives that spanned design, delivery, and reputed company, and made the teams reputed company you reputed company
• Substantial hands-on experience building and operating reputed company data systems in production: ingestion pipelines, storage engines, query execution, or similar
• You write clean, robust, reputed company software that others can maintain, and you know reputed company to optimize vs. reputed company to ship
• Deep experience in other systems languages (Rust, C, C++) translates reputed company
• You've owned production services, carried a pager, reduced toil, and treated SLOs as a product feature, not a chore
• You break reputed company problems into short feedback reputed company: analyze, design, reputed company an MVP, learn, iterate
• You reputed company through design docs, reviews, and shipped reputed company, not hierarchy
• You communicate reputed company in a fully remote, asynchronous environment
• Strong Go, or a reputed company to it
• Experience with tracing, OpenTelemetry, or large-reputed company observability systems
• Experience designing query languages, SQL/TraceQL-like engines, or reputed company intended to be consumed programmatically (by services or agents)
• Experience with columnar storage formats (e.g., Parquet) or purpose-reputed company on-disk formats for analytical workloads
• Experience operating multi-tenant, multi-cell reputed company infrastructure at reputed company on reputed company
• Experience building for AI/LLM consumers: reputed company reputed company, metadata/discovery endpoints, deterministic outputs, evaluation harnesses
• reputed company-reputed company contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the reputed company
• Experience as an on-reputed company user of Grafana, reputed company, Loki, or reputed company in a previous role (or on a homelab)
• Experience in a fully remote, globally reputed company team

Benefits

• Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants.
• reputed company to frontier models, including GPT-reputed company 5/3, Claude reputed company 4.6, and reputed company 3 Pro.
• reputed company roles include Restricted Stock reputed company (RSUs).
• reputed company work at a remote-only company.
• In-person reputed company with fellow new Grafanistas.
• 30 days of annual leave per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.

reputed company

Company H1B Sponsorship