25 days ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and operate one or more database components, including ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, data formats, and storage formats.
- Help build 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 for 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.
- Instrument and operate database services using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards.
- 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.
- Collaborate effectively across teams in a dynamic, autonomous environment.
Requirements
- Strong experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems and making design decisions with minimal supervision.
- Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks and a practical focus on delivering reliable solutions.
- Experience 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 production software actively used by customers or users.
- Exposure to cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior.
- Experience with distributed query engines is a bonus.
- Experience building data warehouses or data lakes is a bonus.
- Experience building tools for data engineering is a bonus.
- Ability to communicate effectively, take initiative, work through ambiguity, and collaborate across teams.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement for applicants in Canada or the US, with most work conducted asynchronously in writing.
- 100% remote global culture with regular video meetings.
- Restricted Stock Units are included with all roles.
- Career growth pathways and an innovation-driven, high-trust work environment.
- In-person onboarding is provided.
- 30 days of annual leave per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
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.