About the job
Grafana Labs creates open-source observability tools used by millions around the world. Companies like Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay depend on products such as Grafana Mimir, Grafana Loki, and Grafana Tempo to monitor and analyze their infrastructure. The team values transparency, collaboration, and purposeful work.
This Senior Backend Engineer role is fully remote and open to candidates based in Germany, Spain, the UK, or Sweden.
Role overview
The focus of this position is the Grafana Mimir open-source project. Senior Backend Engineers join either the Query or Storage sub-team, working on distributed systems that support Grafana Cloud Metrics across major cloud providers. The main priorities are scaling, reliability, and performance for a leading metrics platform.
What you will do
- Maintain and enhance the Grafana Mimir OSS project
- Work on distributed systems designed for large-scale, high-performance environments
- Collaborate with engineers to deliver major features and improvements
- Drive performance and reliability improvements based on real-world usage
- Write and review pull requests
- Create design documentation for new features and changes
- Contribute to release automation
- Participate in the on-call rotation for systems managed by your team
Our culture
Grafana Labs encourages openness, teamwork, and meaningful contributions. The company supports remote collaboration and values engineers who care about open-source technology and want to make a difference.
