Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Ireland | Remote

Grafana Labs
Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 104,000 - 124,800 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Code review","Problem-solving","Operational excellence","Collaboration"]

Build and operate Pyroscope, the open-source continuous profiling database behind Grafana Cloud Profiles. Lead end-to-end projects spanning distributed ingestion, storage, and query—improving read-path efficiency, trace-to-profile correlation, autoscaling, and onboarding. Partner with other Grafana squads (App Observability, Alloy, Tempo) to make profiles useful across engineering workflows, while owning reliability via SLOs and EMEA on-call. Contribute to Pyroscope’s open-source roadmap.

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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Ireland | Remote

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Job Summary

Build and operate Pyroscope, the open-source continuous profiling database behind Grafana Cloud Profiles. Lead end-to-end projects spanning distributed ingestion, storage, and query—improving read-path efficiency, trace-to-profile correlation, autoscaling, and onboarding. Partner with other Grafana squads (App Observability, Alloy, Tempo) to make profiles useful across engineering workflows, while owning reliability via SLOs and EMEA on-call. Contribute to Pyroscope’s open-source roadmap.
Location: Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Sweden
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 components of a distributed database for ingestion, storage, and query with trade-offs across performance, cost, and complexity.
  • •Drive operational excellence by owning outcomes against SLOs and unit cost targets, reducing toil via automation, and improving incident outcomes.
  • •Partner across Grafana squads to make profiles useful wherever engineers work.
  • •Participate in EMEA on-call for the services you build and treat incident response and post-incident learning as part of the craft.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 104,000 - 124,800 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:RsusPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience with a systems programming language; Pyroscope is written in Go, and experience with other languages (e.g., Rust, C, C++, Python, Java) is valued.
  • •Build and operate distributed systems in production, including multi-tenant, performance- and cost-sensitive services.
  • •Strong product sense: can translate customer pain points into deliverables without a dedicated PM.
  • •Write clean, robust, high-performance software and know when to optimize versus ship.
  • •Operational mindset: experience with pager/SRE-style work and treating reliability as a feature.
Experience:Open sourceObservabilitySaaSDistributed systemsSRE
Skills:CommunicationCode reviewProblem-solvingOperational excellenceCollaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoRustCC++PythonJavaKubernetesOpenTelemetryOTelGrafanaPyroscopeAlloyTempoPrometheusCLIAPIs

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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