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

Grafana Labs
Spain
Workplace: RemoteFull time83,000 - 104,000Function: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Self-driven","Collaboration","Communication","Pragmatism","Customer focus"]

Build and operate telemetry database services powering Grafana Cloud’s observability stack, including Loki ingestion and related components. Work on multi-tenant distributed systems written in Go and deployed on Kubernetes across major cloud providers. Drive projects from ideation through customer operations, contribute to open-source culture, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate in a remote-first engineering environment with strong code review and quality standards.

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

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Job Summary

Build and operate telemetry database services powering Grafana Cloud’s observability stack, including Loki ingestion and related components. Work on multi-tenant distributed systems written in Go and deployed on Kubernetes across major cloud providers. Drive projects from ideation through customer operations, contribute to open-source culture, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate in a remote-first engineering environment with strong code review and quality standards.
Location: Spain
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Influence the product roadmap and deliver new features with your team, iterating based on results.
  • •Drive projects from ideation through operations once delivered to customers.
  • •Design, build, operate, and maintain critical telemetry 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 in a remote-first environment through design discussions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: 83,000 - 104,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred; Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar are relevant).
  • •Experience delivering projects end-to-end, from gathering requirements and brainstorming to shipping customer-facing products.
  • •Experience developing software that runs in the cloud or systems engineering experience.
  • •Ability to write clean, robust, performant software that is maintainable by others.
Skills:Self-drivenCollaborationCommunicationPragmatismCustomer focus
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoPythonCC++RustKubernetesDockerGCPAzureAWSPrometheusMimirLokiTempoPyroscopeGrafana AgentOpenTelemetryMicroservices

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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