Senior Backend Engineer (Databases, Pyroscope)

Join Pyroscope, the open-source continuous profiling database behind Grafana Cloud Profiles. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will lead meaningful projects, design and operate core components of a distributed database, and drive operational excellence. You will also partner across Grafana, support your teammates, and contribute to open source. Enjoy a fully remote work environment, competitive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

• Concevoir, construire et exploiter des composants clés d'une base de données distribuée, en prenant des décisions éclairées sur les performances, les coûts et la complexité.
• Diriger des projets de l'idée à la mise en œuvre, y compris la conception, la livraison, les opérations et le suivi auprès des clients.
• Collaborer avec d'autres équipes au sein de Grafana pour intégrer Pyroscope dans l'écosystème Grafana et améliorer l'expérience utilisateur.
• Clear communication. You work well in a fully remote, asynchronous environment and lead through writing, reviews, and shipped code
• Product sense. You are comfortable talking to customers, sitting with ambiguity, and breaking fuzzy problems into manageable deliverables. Since we have no dedicated PM, this matters as much as your code
• Operational mindset. You have carried a pager, done SRE-style work or infrastructure as code, and treat reliability as a feature
• Curiosity and courage. Pyroscope is nearing feature completeness while still refining product-market fit. We need someone who asks hard questions and challenges the status quo when appropriate
• Pragmatism. You break complex problems into short feedback loops: analyze, design, deliver an MVP, learn, iterate
• Solid experience with a systems language. We write Pyroscope in Go; experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. Rust, C, C++, Python, Java, etc)
• Strong software craftsmanship. You write clean, robust, performant software that others can maintain, and you know when to optimize versus when to ship
• Distributed systems in production. You have built and operated cloud services and understand what it takes to keep a multi-tenant data system fast, reliable, and affordable
• Experience with profiling and performance engineering: flamegraphs, pprof, perf, or similar tooling
• Experience with OpenTelemetry or large-scale observability systems
• Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure at scale on Kubernetes
• Experience building for AI/LLM consumers: structured APIs, metadata and discovery endpoints, deterministic outputs
• Experience as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Pyroscope, or similar in a previous role (or on a homelab)
• Open-source contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the open
• Experience in a fully remote, globally distributed team