Senior Backend Engineer – Databases

Grafana Labs

Senior Backend Engineer developing solutions for Pyroscope, an open-source profiling database. Collaborating with clients and teams ensuring reliability and performance in cloud environments.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $154,445 - $185,334 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoKubernetesPythonRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements
Lead projects from concept to implementation, including ongoing customer support
Design, build, operate, and maintain essential systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability
Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee
Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues
Expand your skill set by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase

Requirements

What you’ll need

You are a motivated self-starter with a bias toward action
We build everything with our users in mind.
You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs.
Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar, then that translates well
Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
Strong experience with designing and developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.
Experience with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code
Solid experience with distributed systems
Experience working with Kubernetes

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% Remote, Global Culture
Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect.

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoPythonCC++Rustcloud computingsoftware designdistributed systemsKubernetesinfrastructure as code

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationself-starterpragmatismmentoringcustomer focusproblem-solvingteamworkadaptabilityfeedback analysis