Senior Backend Engineer - Databases
Core
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical multi-tenant distributed telemetry databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) for Grafana Cloud, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability for 7,000+ customers.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (Databases)
Builds
Multi-tenant distributed telemetry databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) running on Kubernetes across GCP, Azure, and AWS.
Domain
Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
Required skills
Go, Cloud systems engineering, Clean and performant software development, Project delivery from ideation to shipping, Modular solution design, MVP delivery, Iterative development
Preferred skills
Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices architecture, Distributed systems, Infrastructure as code, On-call/SRE experience
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Azure, AWS, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope, OpenTelemetry, Grafana Agent
Responsibilities
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems owning reliability and performance; Drive projects from initial ideation to operations; Participate in on-call rotations; Collaborate on design discussions and support team members; Contribute to open-source projects outside team scope.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
