Staff Backend Engineer, Grafana

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

📋 Description

• Develop the essential backend services: Design, implement, test, and manage the initial services for context ingestion, context indexing, retrieval orchestration, API access, source configuration, and system administration.

• Establish a scalable SaaS framework: Assist in defining and constructing the architecture for a multi-tenant service, which includes tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and dependable service boundaries.

• Enhance agent-facing retrieval workflows: Create APIs and service interfaces that enable AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to access pertinent context, provenance, confidence signals, and alerts.

• Collaborate across product and infrastructure: Work alongside the team to balance practical trade-offs between rapid experimentation and long-term reliability, particularly as the project transitions from prototype to production.

• Manage your creations: Equip services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards. Leverage observability tools to gain insights into system behavior and enhance reliability.

• Influence technical direction: Contribute to shaping the architecture, service boundaries, storage decisions, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering methodologies for a new product domain.

• Communicate effectively: In a highly dynamic and collaborative environment, we seek someone who can communicate clearly and contribute across various teams.

• Take ownership and make an impact: Assume full responsibility for the AI solutions you develop, ensuring they are not only innovative but also scalable, maintainable, and aligned with actual user workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong engineering capabilities

• Practical experience in AI

• Ability to iterate quickly and experiment

• Demonstrated initiative

• Collaborative mindset

• Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and developing applications powered by GenAI

• Proven history of delivering software that has been deployed into production

• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Experience utilizing observability tools to analyze and resolve system behavior

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Bonus (if applicable)

• 30 days of annual leave

• In-person onboarding for new hires