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, quotas, usage tracking, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries.
- Build APIs and database interfaces that support fast retrieval by AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications.
- Make architectural and product tradeoffs as the system evolves from prototype and internal dogfooding to production-grade SaaS.
- Operate and improve database services using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards, and observability tools.
- Shape service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices for a new product area.
- Collaborate across product and infrastructure teams and communicate effectively in a dynamic environment.
Requirements
- Strong experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems with minimal supervision.
- Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks, with a practical focus on delivering reliable solutions.
- Experience working with distributed systems, catalogs and table formats, and query engines.
- Mastery of a programming language such as Go, C++, or Rust.
- A proven track record of delivering software that reached production and is actively used by customers.
- Exposure to cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior.
- Experience building distributed query engines, data warehouses, data lakes, or data engineering tools is a bonus.
- Ability to work through ambiguity, take ownership, make pragmatic architectural decisions, and collaborate effectively.
Benefits
- 100% remote work with applicants considered in Spain, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, or Germany, with regular video meetings and primarily asynchronous written collaboration.
- Spain base compensation range of EUR 83,000–103,700; country-specific ranges apply elsewhere.
- 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.
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.