Grafana

Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Germany | Remote

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19 days ago
Remote, GermanySenior
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Responsibilities

  • Lead projects from concept to rollout, including design, delivery, and customer follow-up.
  • Design, build, and operate core components of a distributed database.
  • Engage with customers to translate pain points into manageable deliverables.
  • Drive operational excellence by owning outcomes against SLOs and reducing toil through automation.
  • Collaborate with other teams to enhance the usability of profiles across Grafana.
  • Support teammates through design discussions, code reviews, and pairing.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident response.
  • Contribute to the open-source community by engaging with external contributions.

Requirements

  • Solid experience with a systems programming language, preferably Go.
  • Experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
  • Strong product sense and ability to translate customer needs into deliverables.
  • Curiosity and courage to challenge the status quo.
  • Strong software craftsmanship with a focus on clean, maintainable code.
  • Operational mindset with experience in SRE or infrastructure as code.
  • Ability to communicate clearly in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work with a global culture.
  • Opportunities for career growth and development.
  • Transparent communication and open decision-making.
  • 30 days of annual leave, including dedicated shutdown days.
  • Access to modern AI coding assistants and tools.
  • In-person onboarding to foster team connections.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData EngineeringDevOps
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About Grafana

1,001-5,000 employees

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions, while getting the visibility they need to run AI systems reliably and at scale. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,400+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital.