175K–210K USD / year
Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases
BackendRemote — USA
Published on 2026-09-17
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About this role
Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to work on Mimir Query and database systems. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining critical systems that operate at scale on Kubernetes. Candidates will collaborate within a remote team to enhance performance and reliability while contributing to an open-source culture.
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
Mimir Squad
Stack
GoKubernetesMicroservicesDistributed Systems
What you'll do
- Influence the product roadmap and personal career objectives
- Deliver new features and iterate based on results
- Drive projects from concept to operational deployment
- Maintain critical systems for reliability and performance
- Participate in on-call rotations
- Support team members and engage in design discussions
What we're looking for
- Solid experience with at least one programming language, preferably Go
- Experience leading projects from idea to product delivery
- Development experience in cloud environments
- Knowledge of observability systems
- Familiarity with microservices architecture
- Experience writing clean, maintainable software
Nice to have
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Familiarity with queue systems like Kafka
- Experience using Grafana and Prometheus
Benefits
- 30 days of annual leave
- Company-funded usage budget for AI coding tools