Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases

Grafana Labs
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 174,986 - 209,983 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Self-starter","Bias towards action","Customer focus","Time management","Collaboration and communication","Pragmatism"]

Build and operate Grafana Cloud’s telemetry databases for Mimir (metrics) and related observability components. Work on distributed, multi-tenant backend systems in Go running on Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, and Azure, improving performance, reliability, and query efficiency. Collaborate within a remote squad, drive projects from idea to customer rollout, contribute to open-source culture, and participate in on-call rotations while maintaining strong code quality and developer productivity.

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Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases

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Job Summary

Build and operate Grafana Cloud’s telemetry databases for Mimir (metrics) and related observability components. Work on distributed, multi-tenant backend systems in Go running on Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, and Azure, improving performance, reliability, and query efficiency. Collaborate within a remote squad, drive projects from idea to customer rollout, contribute to open-source culture, and participate in on-call rotations while maintaining strong code quality and developer productivity.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems with ownership of reliability, performance, and availability.
  • •Drive projects from initial idea through delivery to customer operations.
  • •Deliver new features with your team and use results to iterate and improve.
  • •Contribute to open-source culture and to work beyond the immediate squad scope when needed.
  • •Participate in on-call rotation and support other engineers through design discussions, PRs, and documentation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 174,986 - 209,983 annually
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go is used; Python, C, C++, Rust or similar translate).
  • •Experience developing software that runs in the cloud or experience with systems engineering.
  • •Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that others can maintain.
  • •Experience leading and delivering projects from requirements and brainstorming through shipping with self-drive and collaboration.
  • •Comfort with microservices architecture and distributed systems, including on-call following the DevOps model.
Experience:Open sourceObservability
Skills:Self-starterBias towards actionCustomer focusTime managementCollaboration and communicationPragmatism
Tech Stack:GoPythonCC++RustKubernetesAWSGCPAzurePrometheusMimirLokiTempoPyroscopeLLMsClaudeCodexMicroservicesDistributed systemsKafka

Company Brief

Grafana Labs
Develops open-source and commercial observability tools, including Grafana for metrics visualization, Loki for log aggregation, and Tempo for tracing, enabling organizations to monitor, analyze, and visualize system performance and telemetry data.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2014
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