Senior Backend Software Engineer - Loki | NASA | Remote

Details

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the Databases team working on Loki, its open-source log aggregation system. The role involves building and operating critical components of Grafana Cloud's composable observability platform.

Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company. The Databases team owns telemetry databases including Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles. These are multi-tenant distributed systems implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across GCP, Azure, and AWS. The wider engineering organization also works with Prometheus, Grafana Alloy, Mimir proxies, and OpenTelemetry.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning their reliability, performance, and availability.
• Influence the product roadmap and define career objectives.
• Deliver new features and use results to iterate and improve.
• Drive projects from ideation through customer delivery and ongoing operations.
• Contribute to open-source projects, including projects outside the immediate team scope.
• Participate in team on-call rotations and take ownership of operated services.
• Mentor and support team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate effectively.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the cloud product, customers, and large distributed systems.
• Work independently and communicate effectively in a remote-first engineering organization.

Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language. Grafana Labs primarily uses Go; experience with Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar languages is also relevant.
• Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering and brainstorming through shipping products to customers.
• Experience developing cloud-based software or working in systems engineering.
• Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software.
• A self-starting, action-oriented approach.
• Customer focus and an interest in building intuitive products.
• Pragmatic problem-solving skills, including the ability to break complex challenges into modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather feedback, and iterate.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience writing low-level code for databases, storage layers, or query engines.
• Experience working with Kubernetes.
• Experience using Grafana or Prometheus in operational roles, including on-call work or hobby and homelab projects.
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or willingness to learn.
• Familiarity with on-call work, operations, SRE tasks, or infrastructure as code.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base compensation range: CAD 164,500 to CAD 197,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset.
• Equity, bonus where applicable, and other benefits.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days where applicable.
• Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants within security guidelines.
• Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
• Remote-first global culture, career growth pathways, open-source culture, and in-person onboarding.

The role is available to candidates located in the United States or Canada.