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Staff Backend Software Engineer - Loki

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $167,000–$209,000🗓 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-26

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

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