Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Ingest | Spain | Remote
Core
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical distributed telemetry databases (Loki, Mimir, Tempo) for Grafana Cloud's observability platform.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)
Builds
Multi-tenant distributed telemetry databases (logs, metrics, traces) running on Kubernetes across major cloud providers.
Domain
Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Cloud systems engineering, Clean and performant software development, Distributed systems knowledge, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices architecture, Infrastructure as code, On-call/SRE operations
Preferred skills
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Python/C/C++/Rust
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Azure, AWS, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Grafana Agent
Responsibilities
Drive projects from ideation to operations, Design and build critical systems, Participate in on-call rotations, Collaborate on design discussions, Contribute to open-source projects, Iterate on features based on customer feedback
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC