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

Grafana Labs
United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden
Workplace: RemoteFull timeGBP 91,000 - 1,114,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Self-starter","Bias towards action","Customer focus","Collaboration","Communication"]

Build and operate Grafana Cloud’s multi-tenant telemetry databases for Loki ingest, alongside Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope. You’ll design, implement, and maintain critical distributed systems in Go across Kubernetes clusters on major cloud providers, taking ownership of reliability, performance, and availability. Work end-to-end from ideation to customer operations, contribute to open-source efforts, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate in a remote, globally distributed engineering team.

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

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Job Summary

Build and operate Grafana Cloud’s multi-tenant telemetry databases for Loki ingest, alongside Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope. You’ll design, implement, and maintain critical distributed systems in Go across Kubernetes clusters on major cloud providers, taking ownership of reliability, performance, and availability. Work end-to-end from ideation to customer operations, contribute to open-source efforts, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate in a remote, globally distributed engineering team.
Location: United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Influence the roadmap and align work to your career objectives.
  • •Deliver new features with your team, iterate based on results, and drive projects from ideation to customer operations.
  • •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.
  • •Collaborate with teammates and contribute to open-source projects beyond your immediate team scope.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 91,000 - 1,114,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual BonusPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Solid experience with at least one programming language; they use Go and value familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar.
  • •Experience delivering projects end-to-end from requirements and ideation to shipping to customers in a self-driven way.
  • •Experience developing cloud-running software or systems engineering experience.
  • •Experience writing clean, robust, performant software that others can maintain.
Experience:Open sourceSaaSObservability
Skills:Self-starterBias towards actionCustomer focusCollaborationCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoPythonCC++RustKubernetesDockerGCPAzureAWSPrometheusMimirLokiTempoPyroscopeGrafana AgentOpenTelemetryGPT-Codex 5/3Claude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Pro

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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