Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Sweden | Remote

Grafana Labs
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Ireland
Workplace: RemoteFull timeSEK 775,444 - 930,533Function: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Customer empathy","Problem-solving"]

Own end-to-end projects for Pyroscope, the open-source continuous profiling database behind Grafana Cloud Profiles. Lead development of distributed database components (ingestion, storage, query) and ship improvements like adaptive profiles, trace-to-profile correlation, and agent-ready APIs/CLI. Partner with other Grafana squads, drive reliability against SLOs and unit-cost targets, participate in EMEA on-call, and contribute to the open-source community.

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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Sweden | Remote

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end projects for Pyroscope, the open-source continuous profiling database behind Grafana Cloud Profiles. Lead development of distributed database components (ingestion, storage, query) and ship improvements like adaptive profiles, trace-to-profile correlation, and agent-ready APIs/CLI. Partner with other Grafana squads, drive reliability against SLOs and unit-cost targets, participate in EMEA on-call, and contribute to the open-source community.
Location: United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Ireland
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead projects from concept to rollout, including design, delivery, operations, and customer follow-up.
  • •Design, build, and operate core distributed database components (ingestion, storage, query) with trade-offs across performance, cost, and complexity.
  • •Drive operational excellence by owning outcomes against SLOs and unit cost targets, reducing toil through automation, and improving incident response.
  • •Partner across Grafana squads (e.g., App Observability, Alloy, Tempo, and other Databases squads) to make profiles useful wherever engineers work.
  • •Participate in EMEA on-call for the services you build and contribute to Pyroscope as open source.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: SEK 775,444 - 930,533
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Rsus

Key Requirements

  • •Solid experience with a systems language; Pyroscope is written in Go, with experience in one or more languages such as Rust, C, C++, Python, or Java.
  • •Experience building and operating cloud services and distributed, multi-tenant systems that are fast, reliable, and affordable.
  • •Product sense: comfort talking to customers, handling ambiguity, and turning unclear problems into deliverables without a dedicated PM.
  • •Strong software craftsmanship: write clean, robust, performant software and know when to optimize versus ship.
  • •Operational mindset with experience carrying a pager, doing SRE-style work, or using infrastructure as code, treating reliability as a feature.
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationCustomer empathyProblem-solving
Tech Stack:GoRustCC++PythonJavaKubernetesOpenTelemetryGrafanaGrafana CloudAlloyTempoPrometheusPyroscopeCLIAPIsPprofFlamegraphsPerf

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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