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 implement the architecture for a scalable, multi-tenant database SaaS foundation with tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries.
- Build APIs and database interfaces that support fast data retrieval by AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications.
- Make architectural and product tradeoffs while evolving the system from prototype and internal dogfooding to production-grade SaaS.
- Operate and improve database services using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards, and observability tools.
- Contribute to technical direction covering architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices.
- Collaborate effectively across product, infrastructure, and engineering teams while taking ownership of scalable and maintainable solutions.
Requirements
- Strong 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 pragmatic architectural decisions, communicate effectively, and drive projects forward.
- Preferred experience includes building distributed query engines, data warehouses, data lakes, or tools for data engineering.
Benefits
- 100% remote work with applicants considered in Spain, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, and Germany.
- Remote-first asynchronous work culture with regular video meetings and an in-person onboarding program.
- Equity, bonus if applicable, and other company 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 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.