Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Second Horizon | Spain | Remote

Grafana Labs
Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 94,025 - 112,830 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Self-starter","Ownership","Effective communication","Collaboration","Solutions-oriented mindset"]

Build the first production backend services for an AI-native context layer management system. Design and ship ingestion, context indexing, retrieval orchestration, and agent-facing APIs, including a scalable multi-tenant SaaS foundation with tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, and audit logs. Partner across product and infrastructure to balance rapid experimentation with reliability, and operate the services using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards while shaping long-term architecture and engineering practices.

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Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Second Horizon | Spain | Remote

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Job Summary

Build the first production backend services for an AI-native context layer management system. Design and ship ingestion, context indexing, retrieval orchestration, and agent-facing APIs, including a scalable multi-tenant SaaS foundation with tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, and audit logs. Partner across product and infrastructure to balance rapid experimentation with reliability, and operate the services using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards while shaping long-term architecture and engineering practices.
Location: Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany
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 system administration.
  • •Help define and build a multi-tenant SaaS architecture, including tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries.
  • •Build APIs and service interfaces for AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve relevant context, provenance, confidence signals, and warnings.
  • •Partner with product and infrastructure teams to make tradeoffs between fast experimentation and long-term reliability as the project moves from prototype to production.
  • •Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards to monitor behavior and improve reliability.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 94,025 - 112,830 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkEquityPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Strong experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems with the ability to work through complex problems and ambiguity.
  • •Practical AI experience, including delivering high-quality solutions that work in the real world.
  • •Experience releasing prototypes, gathering feedback, and iterating quickly with a pragmatic mindset.
  • •Experience working in cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • •Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior.
Experience:SaaSCloud-nativeAILLMsObservability
Skills:Self-starterOwnershipEffective communicationCollaborationSolutions-oriented mindset
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AWSGCPAzureLLMsPrompt engineeringGenAIMCPCLIsMulti-agent workflowsLookerTableauPowerBISnowflakeDataBricksTempoMetricsLogsTracesAlertsDashboards

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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