Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases | Canada | Remote
Core
Design, build, and operate Mimir, a distributed metrics database for the Grafana Cloud observability platform, focusing on efficiency, resilience, and performance at scale.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)
Builds
Mimir (metrics storage and query engine) and Grafana Cloud Metrics service
Domain
Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, distributed systems, microservices, cloud development, on-call/DevOps, system design, performance optimization, clean code practices
Preferred skills
Kubernetes, Kafka, Prometheus, Mimir, infrastructure as code, LLMs (Claude/Codex)
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana Cloud, AWS, GCP, Azure
Responsibilities
Design and build critical distributed systems, optimize processing and querying efficiency, drive projects from idea to operations, participate in on-call rotations, review PRs and design documents, collaborate on open-source contributions
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence