9 hours ago
Remote, United Kingdom +4 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and build one or more database components, including ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, data formats, and storage formats.
- Design and develop the architecture for a scalable, multi-tenant database SaaS service with tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries.
- Build APIs and database interfaces supporting retrieval by AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications.
- Balance rapid experimentation with long-term reliability as the project progresses from prototype to production.
- 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.
- Communicate effectively and take ownership of scalable, maintainable database solutions aligned with user workflows.
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, make architectural decisions, iterate quickly, define scope amid ambiguity, and collaborate effectively.
- Preferred experience building distributed query engines, data warehouses or data lakes, and tools for data engineering.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement, with applicants considered from Germany, Spain, Sweden, the UK, or Ireland.
- In-person onboarding and a global remote culture with asynchronous, writing-focused collaboration.
- Equity and bonus where applicable, in addition to other benefits.
- 30 days of annual leave per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
- Career growth pathways, transparent communication, empowered teams, and open-source-oriented 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.