Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Databases, Loki Ingest | USA | Remote
Grafana Labs
About this role
The Staff Backend Engineer will join the Databases team working on Grafana’s telemetry databases (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope) that power Grafana Cloud and self-managed deployments. This remote-first role focuses on contributing to open-source projects and cloud services that run across major cloud providers, helping shape product direction and the developer ecosystem. The position emphasizes ownership of critical backend components and collaboration across distributed, global teams.
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About Grafana Labs
grafana.comGrafana Labs develops Grafana, an open-source, composable observability and analytics platform for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces from virtually any data source. The product provides flexible, customizable dashboards, alerting, and a plugin-driven ecosystem with integrations like Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Elasticsearch, and cloud provider services. Grafana Labs also offers Grafana Cloud and enterprise editions that add managed hosting, scalability, security, and commercial support for organizations with production SLAs. Teams choose Grafana for its extensibility, strong open-source community, and developer-friendly UX for monitoring and troubleshooting.
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About Grafana Labs
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$175k – $210k
per year