Senior Database Backend Engineer, Analytics at Grafana Labs

Confirmed open

Build a distributed analytics database for Grafana’s AI-aware data platform, including ingestion, queries and multi-tenant services. The employer lists Republic of Ireland (Remote).

Grafana Labs

Location: Republic of Ireland (Remote)
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: C++, AWS, Azure, GCP

Role overview

This database engineering role helps create the storage layer for a new data-intelligence platform that gives people and AI agents governed access to enterprise context. The system combines analytical and fresh-data queries, separates compute from storage and is intended to run across cloud providers. Each requisition specifies a remote hiring country.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, test and operate database ingestion, query planning, distributed execution and data or storage formats.
Build multi-tenant service foundations, including isolation, quotas, usage tracking, audit logs and reliable background work.
Create APIs and database interfaces for agents, command-line tools and internal applications to retrieve context.
Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerts and improve reliability from observed behaviour.
Help choose architecture, storage, APIs and deployment practices as the product moves from prototype to production.

Qualifications

Experience building production software and making technical decisions with ownership in ambiguous projects.
Practical understanding of AI tools, rapid prototyping and collaborative iteration.
Distributed systems, data catalogues or table formats, query engines and a language such as Go, C++ or Rust.
Cloud-native experience on AWS, GCP or Azure and use of observability tools for diagnosis.
Distributed query engines, data warehouses, data lakes or data-engineering tools are additional strengths.

Benefits

The employer describes remote work, stock units, in-person onboarding and an annual leave policy of 30 days, subject to local law. Country-specific pay ranges are listed on the individual employer postings.

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs develops Grafana Cloud and open-source observability software that helps teams examine metrics, logs and traces. The employer describes itself as a fully remote company.