Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Second Horizon | Germany | 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-grade multi-tenant SaaS services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval, and agent-facing integrations.
Domain
AI/LLM infrastructure, Observability, Cloud-native backend systems
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, System administration
Preferred skills
Agent frameworks and multi-agent workflows, Data platform experience (Snowflake, DataBricks), Data engineering tools
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Azure, LLMs, GenAI frameworks, Observability tools
Responsibilities
Design and implement context ingestion, indexing, and retrieval orchestration services; Build scalable multi-tenant architecture with tenant isolation and quotas; Develop APIs for AI agents and MCP tools to retrieve context and provenance; Partner on tradeoffs between fast experimentation and long-term reliability; Operate services using metrics, logs, and traces; Contribute to technical direction and engineering practices for the new product area.