Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

at Grafana Labs

📍 Canada
📍 United States

USD 175,000-210,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value. About proficiency levels:

1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

Security @ 4 Go @ 4 Grafana @ 4 Kubernetes @ 4 Prometheus @ 4 Ruby @ 4 Python @ 3 Java @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 4 Communication @ 7 SRE @ 3 Node.js @ 3 Rust @ 3 Microservices @ 4 Customer Support @ 4 Observability @ 4 AI @ 4 Profiling @ 4

Details

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company with a large global user base for Grafana and related observability projects. Pyroscope is an open-source continuous profiling database for storing and querying profiling data to gain insight into resource utilization at fine granularity. The backend team builds distributed systems to support profile ingestion, storage, querying and integrates profiling with the Grafana observability stack.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and iterate on improvements
Lead projects from concept to implementation and provide ongoing customer support
Design, build, operate, and maintain reliable, performant, highly available systems
Influence product and technical roadmap and personal career objectives
Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for services you support
Support and mentor team members and engage in design discussions
Expand knowledge of Grafana Cloud products, customers, and the Pyroscope codebase
Use modern developer tooling, including optional AI-assisted coding tools within security guidelines

Requirements

Solid experience with at least one programming language; the team uses Go (Golang). Familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar is also relevant
Experience delivering projects end-to-end: gathering requirements, design, implementation, shipping
Strong experience designing and developing software that runs in the Cloud or strong systems engineering experience
Experience writing clean, robust, performant, maintainable software
Experience being on-call and performing operations / SRE tasks or familiarity with infrastructure as code
Solid experience with distributed systems
Experience working with Kubernetes
Strong communication skills and ability to work independently in a remote-first environment

Bonus Points

Experience using Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles
Exposure to microservices architecture
Databases backend experience
Experience or familiarity with instrumentation support for languages such as Go, .NET, Java, Ruby, Python, Node.js, Rust and with eBPF

Compensation & Benefits

U.S. compensation range for this role: $174,986 - $209,983 USD
All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
100% remote, global culture with in-person onboarding
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum (3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days), subject to local legislation

Equal Opportunity & Privacy

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunity employer. They may utilize AI tools in recruitment to assist with CV matching; inbound CVs are manually reviewed by the recruitment team.