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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics
Grafana Labs
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
100% remote
Experience
Senior · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Key details
- Design, implement, test, and operate ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, data formats, and storage formats
- Help define and build the architecture for a multi-tenant database service, including tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries
- Build APIs and database interfaces that allow AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve data quickly
- Partner with the team to make practical tradeoffs between fast experimentation and long-term reliability
- Instrument database services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards; use observability tools to improve reliability
- Help shape architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices
- Communicate effectively and contribute across teams
- Take full ownership of database solutions, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with real user workflows
- Company mission
- Information not specified
Primary stack
Core technologies
GoAWS
Benefits
- Information not specified
Requirements & details
- Strong engineering skills with solid experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems
- Self-starter capable of tackling complex engineering problems and making design decisions with minimal supervision
- Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks, with a practical mindset focused on real-world solutions
- Comfortable releasing prototypes, collecting feedback, and iterating pragmatically
- Proven initiative, ownership, and ability to deal with ambiguity and define scope
- Collaborative attitude with effective communication and a solutions-oriented mindset
- Experience with distributed systems, catalogs and table formats, and query engines
- Mastery of a programming language such as Golang, C++, or Rust
- Proven track record of delivering software that made it into production and is actively used by users
- Golang, C++, Rust
- Go
- AWS