186K–224K CAD / year
Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases
BackendRemote — Canada
Published on 2026-09-17
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About this role
Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for its Mimir Query and Databases team. The role involves designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical systems within a distributed, collaborative environment. Candidates will influence project roadmaps and contribute to open-source culture while supporting high-performance observability services.
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
GoKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusLokiTempoPyroscope
What you'll do
- Influence project roadmap and career objectives
- Deliver new features and iterate based on results
- Drive projects from concept to operations
- Design and maintain critical systems
- Participate in on-call rotations
What we're looking for
- Experience with one programming language, preferably Go
- Experience delivering projects from gathering requirements to customer delivery
- Experience with cloud software development
- Familiarity with observability systems
- Comfort with microservices architecture
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with queue systems like Kafka
- User experience with Grafana and Prometheus
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code
Benefits
- Equity
- Flexible remote work culture
- 30 days annual leave including Grafana Shutdown Days