91K–115K GBP / year
Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics
BackendRemote — UK
Published on 2026-09-22
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About this role
Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build the storage system for their data platform. The role involves designing and implementing a scalable, multi-tenant database service and collaborating across product and infrastructure teams.
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.
Stack
GolangC++Rustcloud providersOLAPOTLP
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, and operate database components
- Define architecture for multi-tenant database service
- Build APIs for data retrieval by AI agents
- Collaborate between product and infrastructure teams
- Instrument database services with observability tools
- Contribute to technical direction and architecture
What we're looking for
- Experience in building production-grade software systems
- Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks
- Ability to iterate and experiment quickly
- Proven initiative and ownership of projects
- Effective communication in collaborative environments
- Experience with distributed systems and query engines
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed query engines
- Experience building data warehouses or data lakes
- Experience with data engineering tools
Benefits
- 30 days annual leave
- Equity options
- Bonus potential