Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope
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Grafana LabsObservability Database
We are looking for candidates in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Ireland only., EMEA rotationFull-TimeSenior
SalaryIn Spain, the compensation range for this role is €82,988 - €99,586.
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Cloud ComputingGoDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Solid experience with a systems language (e.g., Go, Rust, C, C++, Python, or Java).
- Proven experience building and operating cloud-based distributed systems in production.
- Ability to manage multi-tenant data systems that are fast, reliable, and affordable.
- Strong product sense with the ability to sit with ambiguity and translate fuzzy problems into deliverables.
- Operational mindset with experience in SRE-style work, infrastructure as code, and on-call rotations.
- Software craftsmanship skills with a focus on writing clean, robust, and performant code.
- Pragmatic approach to problem-solving, using short feedback loops and MVP delivery.
- Clear communication skills for a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
- Curiosity and courage to challenge the status quo and refine product-market fit.
Responsibilities
- Lead projects from concept to rollout, including design, delivery, operations, and customer follow-up.
- Design, build, and operate core components of a distributed database, making sharp trade-offs on performance, cost, and complexity.
- Wear the product hat by joining customer calls, translating pain points into deliverables, and shaping the roadmap.
- Drive operational excellence, own outcomes against SLOs and unit cost targets, and automate toil.
- Partner across Grafana teams to make profiles useful wherever engineers work.
- Support teammates through design conversations, code reviews, and pairing.
- Participate in the EMEA on-call rotation and engage in post-incident learning.
- Contribute to the Pyroscope open-source project and engage with the community.
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