Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases | USA | Remote
Core
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical distributed telemetry databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) for a fully managed observability platform, optimizing efficiency and resilience for processing, storing, and querying metrics at large volumes.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems & Databases)
Builds
Multi-tenant distributed telemetry databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) offered as a hosted service on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Domain
Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, distributed systems, microservices architecture, cloud development, on-call/DevOps, clean and performant software engineering, project leadership from idea to operations, observability concepts (metrics/logs/traces), LLM usage (Claude/Codex).
Preferred skills
Kubernetes, Kafka, Infrastructure as Code, Grafana/Prometheus operational experience.
Technologies
Go, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google models.
Responsibilities
Influence roadmap and career objectives; deliver new features and iterate based on results; drive projects from initial idea to customer operations; design, build, and maintain critical systems for reliability and performance; participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations; collaborate on design discussions and code reviews; learn new skills through deep codebase understanding.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence