Staff Backend Software Engineer - Loki
Core
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical distributed telemetry databases (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope) for Grafana Cloud, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability for multi-tenant systems.
Role type
Staff Backend Software Engineer (Distributed Systems/Database)
Builds
Multi-tenant distributed telemetry databases and cloud observability services
Domain
Cloud Observability / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, SRE/on-call operations, microservices architecture, clean code design, system reliability
Preferred skills
Low-level database/storage/query engine code, Prometheus/Grafana user experience, infrastructure as code, AI coding assistants
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, GCP, Azure, AWS, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, OpenTelemetry
Responsibilities
Design and build critical distributed systems, own service reliability and performance, drive projects from ideation to operations, participate in on-call rotations, mentor team members, contribute to open-source projects
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence