Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Second Horizon | Ireland | Remote
Core
Design and build the core backend architecture for an AI-native data intelligence system that provides context, metadata, and lineage to AI agents.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (AI/LLM context layer)
Builds
Production services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations
Domain
AI/LLM infrastructure, Observability, Cloud-native
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Backend architecture design, API development, Cloud-native environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), Observability tools, LLMs and GenAI application development, Multi-tenant system design
Preferred skills
Agent frameworks and multi-agent workflows, Data platforms (Snowflake, DataBricks), Data engineering tools
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Azure, LLMs, GenAI frameworks
Responsibilities
Design and implement context ingestion, indexing, and retrieval orchestration services; Build scalable multi-tenant SaaS foundations with tenant isolation and quotas; Develop APIs for AI agents and MCP tools to retrieve context and provenance; Operate services using metrics, logs, and traces; Contribute to technical direction and engineering practices
Seniority
Staff, high-autonomy IC