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

Grafana Labs
Germany, Spain, Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 97,000 - 121,000Function: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Self-driven","Communication","Collaboration","Pragmatism","Customer focus"]

Build and operate Grafana Cloud’s telemetry database systems for Loki (logs) and the broader observability stack. You’ll help drive the Databases roadmap, design and maintain multi-tenant distributed services written in Go, and improve reliability, performance, and availability. Work closely with a largely remote engineering team, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to open-source projects while iterating from ideation through operations.

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

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Job Summary

Build and operate Grafana Cloud’s telemetry database systems for Loki (logs) and the broader observability stack. You’ll help drive the Databases roadmap, design and maintain multi-tenant distributed services written in Go, and improve reliability, performance, and availability. Work closely with a largely remote engineering team, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to open-source projects while iterating from ideation through operations.
Location: Germany, Spain, Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Influence roadmap and iterate on features with your team to deliver improvements.
  • •Drive projects from ideation through operations once services are in customers’ hands.
  • •Design, build, operate, and maintain critical multi-tenant distributed systems with a focus on reliability, performance, and availability.
  • •Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you run.
  • •Contribute to open-source culture and collaborate in remote design discussions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 97,000 - 121,000
Perks:EquityAnnual BonusPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred; familiarity with Python, C, C++, or Rust is relevant).
  • •Experience delivering projects end-to-end from gathering requirements and ideation through shipping to customers.
  • •Experience developing software that runs in the cloud or systems engineering experience.
  • •Write clean, robust, performant software that others can easily maintain.
Experience:Open sourceObservabilityCloudDistributed systems
Skills:Self-drivenCommunicationCollaborationPragmatismCustomer focus
Tech Stack:GoPythonCC++RustKubernetesDockerGCPAzureAWSPrometheusMimirLokiTempoPyroscopeGrafana AgentOpenTelemetry

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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