Staff Backend Software Engineer - Databases - Loki Ingest | EMEA | Remote

at Grafana Labs
📍 Germany
📍 Spain
📍 United Kingdom
📍 Sweden
EUR 91,000-114,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ Remote

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Docker @ 4 Go @ 4 Grafana @ 4 Kubernetes @ 4 Prometheus @ 4 Python @ 3 GCP @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 4 AWS @ 4 Azure @ 4 Communication @ 7 SRE @ 3 Rust @ 3 Microservices @ 4 OSS @ 4 OpenTelemetry @ 3

Details

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company with a large global user base for Grafana and related observability projects. The Databases team owns telemetry databases including Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), and Pyroscope (profiles). These are open-source projects offered as Cloud services (Grafana Cloud) and as on-premise solutions. The systems are multi-tenant distributed systems implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across major cloud providers (GCP, Azure, AWS). This role is remote-first and Grafana Labs is interested in applicants based in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom or Sweden at this time.

Responsibilities

  • Influence the product and team roadmap and own career objectives.
  • Work with the team to deliver new features and iterate based on results.
  • Drive projects from ideation through to production and operations, owning reliability, performance, and availability.
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems used by customers.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and take operational ownership of services.
  • Mentor and support team members; participate in design discussions and cross-project collaboration.
  • Embrace open-source culture and contribute to related OSS projects.
  • Communicate effectively in a remote environment and collaborate with global teams.

Requirements

  • Solid experience with at least one programming language. Grafana Labs primarily uses Go; familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar is transferable.
  • Experience delivering projects end-to-end: gathering requirements, brainstorming, shipping to customers, and iterating.
  • Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering.
  • Ability to write clean, robust, and performant software that is maintainable by others.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work independently in a remote-first organization.

Bonus (nice-to-have)

  • Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker.
  • Operational experience using Grafana and Prometheus (including on-call experience).
  • Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with on-call/SRE tasks and infrastructure as code.
  • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and other observability tooling.

Compensation & Rewards

  • In Spain, the base compensation range for this role is EUR 91,000 - EUR 114,000.
  • Actual compensation may vary by level, experience, and location. All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs

  • Remote-first, global culture with transparent communication.
  • Opportunities to work on large-scale open-source systems and meaningful problems.
  • Emphasis on autonomy, innovation, and career growth.
  • In-person onboarding and a global annual leave policy (30 days per annum, with 3 days reserved for company shutdowns).

Other Notes

  • This role is remote; candidates should be located in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, or Sweden at this time.
  • Grafana Labs may use AI tools to assist in recruitment; manual review of CVs is performed by the recruitment team.