9 hours ago
Remote, United Kingdom +4 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and operate database components including ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, data formats, and storage formats.
- Help build a scalable multi-tenant database service with tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries.
- Build APIs and database interfaces that enable AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve data quickly.
- Make architectural and product tradeoffs as the project evolves from prototype to production-grade SaaS.
- Instrument and operate database services using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards, and observability tools.
- Contribute to architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices.
- Own database solutions end to end, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with user workflows.
Requirements
- Experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems and delivering software actively used by customers.
- Strong experience with distributed systems, catalogs and table formats, and query engines.
- Mastery of a programming language such as Go, C++, or Rust.
- Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks and a practical approach to delivering reliable solutions.
- Experience working in cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior.
- Ability to work autonomously through ambiguity, make pragmatic architectural decisions, communicate effectively, and collaborate across teams.
- Bonus experience building distributed query engines, data warehouses or data lakes, and tools for data engineering.
Benefits
- Remote opportunity for applicants located in Spain, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, or Germany, with a remote-first asynchronous work culture.
- In-person onboarding is provided.
- 30 days of annual leave per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
- Benefits include equity, bonus where applicable, and other company benefits.
- Defined career growth pathways, transparent communication, empowered teams, and a global collaborative culture.
About Grafana
Grafana Labs builds open-source observability tools and a managed SaaS, Grafana Cloud, used by engineering and SRE teams to monitor, visualize, and analyze telemetry. Its products include Grafana dashboards plus Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), and Mimir (metrics), offered as cloud subscriptions and enterprise software. Privately held and headquartered in New York, it serves customers such as Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce.