Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Backend Engineer and contribute to the development of Pyroscope, an open-source continuous profiling database. This remote position, currently open to applicants in Germany only, focuses on implementing distributed systems for profile ingestion and queries. You will collaborate with a team to deliver new features, lead projects from concept to implementation, and maintain essential systems. The role requires strong experience with distributed systems, cloud software development, and on-call responsibilities. Grafana Labs offers a remote-first work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development. Compensation includes equity and a bonus (if applicable), with specific details discussed during the recruitment process.

Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
• Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brain-storming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Strong experience with designing and developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• Experience with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code
• Solid experience with distributed systems
• Experience working with Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements
• Lead projects from concept to implementation, including ongoing customer support
• Design, build, operate, and maintain essential systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee
• Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues
• Expand your skill set by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase

Preferred Qualifications

• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
• Exposure to microservices architecture
• Databases backend experience

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)