Staff Backend Engineer – Grafana

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany, +4 more countries.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, test, and manage backend services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval orchestration, API access, source configuration, and system administration.

• Establish and construct a scalable multi-tenant SaaS architecture featuring tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and dependable service boundaries.

• Create APIs and service interfaces for AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to access context, provenance, confidence signals, and alerts.

• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to strike a balance between experimentation and long-term reliability.

• Equip services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards.

• Contribute to the architecture, service boundaries, storage decisions, API agreements, deployment strategies, and engineering methodologies.

• Assume ownership of AI solutions, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with user workflows.

• Work asynchronously and collaboratively across teams in a highly independent environment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in developing production-grade, user-facing software systems.

• Knowledge of AI technologies and frameworks.

• Background in LLMs, prompt engineering, and developing GenAI-powered applications.

• Proven success in delivering software utilized by users in production environments.

• Familiarity with cloud-native platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Experience with observability tools to analyze and troubleshoot system performance.

• Capability to navigate ambiguity, define project scope, and make practical architectural choices.

• Experience in building or engaging with agent frameworks or multi-agent workflows (preferred).

• Background as a data analyst or with data platforms like Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, or DataBricks (preferred).

• Experience in creating tools for data engineering (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Bonus (if applicable).

• Fully remote, global culture.

• Opportunities for career advancement.

• In-person onboarding experience.

• 30 days of annual leave per year.

• 3 annual leave days allocated for Grafana Shutdown Days.

• Open communication and regular updates at the company-wide level.

• Autonomy and support to deliver high-quality work.

• Culture characterized by high trust and low ego.

• Approachable and transparent leadership.