Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Ingest | Spain | Remote
Core
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical distributed telemetry databases (Loki, Mimir, Tempo) for Grafana Cloud's observability platform.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)
Builds
Multi-tenant distributed telemetry databases (logs, metrics, traces) running on Kubernetes across major cloud providers.
Domain
Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
Required skills
Go, Cloud systems engineering, Clean and performant software development, Distributed systems knowledge, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices architecture, Infrastructure as code, On-call/SRE operations
Preferred skills
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Python/C/C++/Rust
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Azure, AWS, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Grafana Agent
Responsibilities
Drive projects from ideation to operations, Design and build critical systems, Participate in on-call rotations, Collaborate on design discussions, Contribute to open-source projects, Iterate on features based on customer feedback
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC