Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics | Sweden | Remote

Grafana Labs

Contract type

Ongoing

Work mode

100% remote

Experience

Senior · Not stated

Level inferred from job title

Job description

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 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

Core technologies

GoAWS

Strong engineering skills with experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems
Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks, with a practical mindset
Comfortable releasing prototypes, collecting feedback, and iterating pragmatically
Proven initiative, ownership, and ability to deal with ambiguity
Collaborative attitude with effective communication skills
Experience with distributed systems, catalogs and table formats, query engines
Mastery of a programming language like 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