24 hours ago
Base Salary
$154k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and build database components covering ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, data formats, and storage formats.
- Define and implement the architecture for a scalable, multi-tenant database SaaS foundation.
- Build APIs and database interfaces that support retrieval by AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications.
- Make architectural and product tradeoffs while evolving the system from prototype to production-grade service.
- Operate database services using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards, and observability tools.
- Shape service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices.
- Take ownership of scalable, maintainable database solutions and collaborate effectively across teams.
Requirements
- Experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems and delivering software actively used in production.
- 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 architectural decisions, iterate quickly, and communicate effectively.
- Bonus experience includes building distributed query engines, data warehouses or data lakes, and tools for data engineering.
Benefits
- 100% remote work with applicants considered from the US or Canada, with asynchronous written collaboration and regular video meetings.
- Restricted Stock Units are included with all roles.
- 30 days of annual leave per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
- In-person onboarding is provided.
- Career growth pathways, transparent communication, empowered teams, and a global collaborative culture are offered.
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.