Staff Backend Engineer - Second Horizon | Canada | Remote

Grafana Labs
Canada, United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeCAD 186,368 - 223,642 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Ownership","Communication","Collaboration","Initiative","Pragmatic decision-making"]

Build the first production backend services for an AI-native context layer management system. Own core ingestion, storage/indexing, and retrieval orchestration, including multi-tenant SaaS foundations and agent-facing retrieval APIs. Work with a high-autonomy, cross-functional team to balance rapid experimentation with long-term reliability, and operate the services with strong observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards) as you shape technical direction and engineering practices.

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Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
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Staff Backend Engineer - Second Horizon | Canada | Remote

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Job Summary

Build the first production backend services for an AI-native context layer management system. Own core ingestion, storage/indexing, and retrieval orchestration, including multi-tenant SaaS foundations and agent-facing retrieval APIs. Work with a high-autonomy, cross-functional team to balance rapid experimentation with long-term reliability, and operate the services with strong observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards) as you shape technical direction and engineering practices.
Location: Canada, United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, test, and operate backend services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval orchestration, API access, source configuration, and administration.
  • •Define and build a scalable multi-tenant SaaS architecture, including tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, and background jobs.
  • •Build agent-facing retrieval workflows by creating APIs and service interfaces for AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve context and confidence signals.
  • •Partner across product and infrastructure to balance fast experimentation with long-term reliability as the prototype moves toward production.
  • •Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards to improve reliability and understand system behavior.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 186,368 - 223,642 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and building applications powered by GenAI.
  • •Demonstrated track record shipping production software that is actively used by users.
  • •Experience working in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • •Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior.
Experience:SaaSAICloud-native
Skills:OwnershipCommunicationCollaborationInitiativePragmatic decision-making
Languages:English
Tech Stack:LLMsPrompt engineeringGenAIAWSGCPAzureAPIsMulti-tenantMetricsLogsTracesAlertsDashboardsMCPCLIsLookerTableauPowerBISnowflakeDataBricks

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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