104K–130K EUR / year
Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics
BackendRemote — Ireland
Published on 2026-09-22
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About this role
Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in databases to develop a data platform with AI capabilities. The role involves creating a scalable architecture for a multi-tenant database service while ensuring efficient data retrieval for AI agents.
About the company
Grafana Labs builds open-source and commercial observability tools for metrics, logs, and traces, centered on Grafana dashboards. It helps teams monitor infrastructure and applications and investigate incidents.
The team
Newly formed team focused on a skunkworks initiative.
Stack
OLAPOTLPGoC++RustAWSGCPAzure
What you'll do
- Design and implement database ingestion and query execution
- Build a multi-tenant database service architecture
- Develop APIs for AI agents and internal applications
- Partner with infrastructure teams for practical trade-offs
- Instrument database services for reliability
What we're looking for
- Experience with production-grade software systems
- Familiarity with AI technologies
- Ability to iterate quickly and experiment
- Proven initiative in driving projects
- Effective communication skills
- Experience with distributed systems
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed query engines
- Building data warehouses
- Creating tools for data engineering
Benefits
- Equity options
- 30 days annual leave including shutdown days
Hiring process
- Interview with hiring manager
- Technical interview
- Team fit interview