Senior Backend Engineer (Databases Pyroscope)

Join Grafana Labs as a Senior Backend Engineer for Pyroscope, the open-source continuous profiling database. You will lead projects from concept to rollout, design and operate core components of a distributed database, and drive operational excellence. You will also partner across Grafana and support your teammates in a fully remote setup.

• 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'ensemble de l'écosystème Grafana.
• This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Ireland only
• 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
• 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
• Operational mindset. You have carried a pager, done SRE-style work or infrastructure as code, and treat reliability as a feature
• Strong software craftsmanship. You write clean, robust, performant software that others can maintain, and you know when to optimize versus when to ship
• 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)
• Clear communication. You work well in a fully remote, asynchronous environment and lead through writing, reviews, and shipped code
• Pragmatism. You break complex problems into short feedback loops: analyze, design, deliver an MVP, learn, iterate
• 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
• Experience with OpenTelemetry or large-scale observability systems
• Experience with profiling and performance engineering: flamegraphs, pprof, perf, or similar tooling
• Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure at scale on Kubernetes
• Experience building for AI/LLM consumers: structured APIs, metadata and discovery endpoints, deterministic outputs
• Open-source contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the open
• Experience in a fully remote, globally distributed team
• Experience as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Pyroscope, or similar in a previous role (or on a homelab)