Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Query  | Sweden | Remote

Grafana Labs
Spain, Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden
Workplace: RemoteFull timeSEK 775,000 - 969,000Function: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Pragmatism","Self-starting","Customer focus"]

Build and operate Grafana Cloud’s telemetry database systems that ingest and store logs, metrics, traces, and profiles using Grafana’s Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and related OSS projects. You’ll design and maintain multi-tenant, distributed services written in Go and running on Kubernetes across major cloud providers. The role includes on-call ownership, roadmap influence, and collaboration in a remote-first team environment.

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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Query  | Sweden | Remote

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Job Summary

Build and operate Grafana Cloud’s telemetry database systems that ingest and store logs, metrics, traces, and profiles using Grafana’s Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and related OSS projects. You’ll design and maintain multi-tenant, distributed services written in Go and running on Kubernetes across major cloud providers. The role includes on-call ownership, roadmap influence, and collaboration in a remote-first team environment.
Location: Spain, Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Influence the team roadmap and your own career objectives while delivering new features.
  • •Drive projects from ideation through operations once features are in customers’ hands.
  • •Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability.
  • •Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you run.
  • •Contribute to open-source culture and collaborate through remote design discussions to improve the codebase.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: SEK 775,000 - 969,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual BonusPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Solid experience with at least one programming language (Grafana uses Go; familiarity with Python, C, C++, or Rust is a plus).
  • •Experience delivering projects end-to-end from gathering requirements and iterating on ideas to shipping customer-facing products.
  • •Some experience developing software that runs in the cloud or experience with systems engineering.
  • •Experience writing clean, robust, performant software that others can maintain.
  • •Ability to operate in a remote environment with strong communication and collaboration.
Experience:CloudDistributed systemsMicroservicesObservabilitySREKubernetes
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationPragmatismSelf-startingCustomer focus
Tech Stack:GoPythonCC++RustKubernetesDockerAWSAzureGCPPrometheusMimirLokiTempoPyroscopeGrafana AgentOpenTelemetryInfrastructure as codeGPT-CodexClaude Opus

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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