Senior Backend Software Engineer - Loki

About this role

Build and operate Loki, Grafana Labs’ distributed database for logs, as part of its cloud observability platform. The role spans feature development, reliability, performance, operations, and open-source contributions.

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

Databases team, responsible for Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope.

Stack

What you'll do

• Design, build, operate, and maintain reliable, performant systems.
• Drive projects from ideation through delivery and customer operations.
• Contribute to open-source projects and help shape the roadmap.
• Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of services.
• Mentor teammates and contribute to design discussions.

What we're looking for

• Experience with at least one programming language; Go experience is useful, and Python, C, C++, or Rust experience can translate.
• Experience delivering software projects from requirements through customer release.
• Cloud software development or systems engineering experience.
• Ability to write clean, robust, performant, maintainable software.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work independently in a remote environment.

Nice to have

• Low-level experience with databases, storage layers, or query engines.
• Kubernetes experience.
• Operational experience with Grafana or Prometheus.
• Exposure to microservices and distributed systems.
• On-call, SRE, or infrastructure-as-code experience.

Benefits

• Equity and a bonus, if applicable.
• 30 days of annual leave, including three Grafana Shutdown Days.
• In-person onboarding.