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Grafana LabsStaff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases | USA | Remote
Role overview. Grafana Labs is recruiting a full-time Staff Backend Engineer for the Mimir Query squad inside its Databases team. The role is remote, for candidates…
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Role overview. Grafana Labs is recruiting a full-time Staff Backend Engineer for the Mimir Query squad inside its Databases team. The role is remote, for candidates in USA time zones. The Databases team runs Mimir, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope as managed services inside Grafana Cloud, and also as on-premise editions under Grafana Enterprise. Team context. These databases are multi-tenant distributed systems written in Go and run at scale on Kubernetes…
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Role overview. Grafana Labs is recruiting a full-time Staff Backend Engineer for the Mimir Query squad inside its Databases team. The role is remote, for candidates in USA time zones. The Databases team runs Mimir, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope as managed services inside Grafana Cloud, and also as on-premise editions under Grafana Enterprise.
Team context. These databases are multi-tenant distributed systems written in Go and run at scale on Kubernetes across AWS, GCP and Azure. The Mimir squad has three sub-teams covering ingestion, storage and queries. Together they maintain the open source Mimir project and run Grafana Cloud Metrics. Engineers focus on making metric ingestion, storage and queries efficient and dependable at very large volume.
Scope. The engineer owns critical systems from design through daily operation, including their reliability, speed and uptime. Work includes sharing in the global on-call coverage, shepherding automated releases, reviewing design documents and pull requests, contributing to other open source projects, and carrying projects from first idea to customer use.
Who it suits. The posting looks for a self-starter with good time management, a customer focus and a pragmatic style that ships working increments and learns from them. Working proficiency in one or more languages is expected, with Go preferred and Python, C, C++ or Rust considered similar. Candidates should have built cloud or systems software, know when to reach for metrics, logs or traces, and be comfortable with microservices and distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Shape the team's roadmap alongside your own career goals
- Ship new features, then learn from results and refine them
- Take projects from initial idea through to operation in customers' hands
- Own critical systems end to end, from design through daily running, with responsibility for reliability, speed and uptime
- Share in the global on-call coverage and own the services you operate
- Review design discussions and pull requests and support other team members
- Contribute to open source projects that sit beyond the immediate team scope
Requirements
- Self-starter with a bias toward action and a customer-focused approach
- Good time management and the ability to prioritize the right work
- Working proficiency in one or more languages, with Go preferred
- Experience leading and delivering projects from requirements through to shipping
- Experience developing cloud software or systems engineering
- Experience with on-call and the DevOps model
- Writes tidy, sturdy, fast code that teammates can maintain
- Familiarity with observability systems and with microservices and distributed systems
- Comfort using LLM tools such as Claude and Codex in day-to-day work
Qualifications
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Experience with queue systems such as Kafka
- Used Grafana and Prometheus day to day, professionally or on personal projects
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code
Core Skills
Benefits
- Equity, with bonus where applicable
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Is this role remote?
Yes. The posting is remote, and candidates should work in USA time zones.
What is the pay range?
The posting gives a U.S. base compensation range of USD 174,986 to 209,983. It says actual pay depends on level, experience and skill set.
What languages and tools are used?
The posting says the team uses Go, and that Python, C, C++ or Rust experience translates well. It also lists Kubernetes and queue systems such as Kafka as useful experience.
Is the position full-time?
Yes. The posting is listed as a full-time role.
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