Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | US | Remote

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with over 20 million users globally. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to implement distributed systems for managing profile ingestion and queries, contributing to the development of their open-source continuous profiling database, Pyroscope.

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

Requirements:

• You are a motivated self-starter with a bias toward action
• We build everything with our users in mind
• You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs
• Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You'll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
• 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, brainstorming 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
• 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