Senior Backend Software Engineer - Loki | NASA | Remote
Senior backend engineer on Grafana Labs' Databases team building and operating Loki, the log database behind Grafana Cloud. Day to day: writing Go for a multi-tenant distributed system on Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, and Azure, driving features from design to production, reviewing PRs, and joining follow-the-sun on-call rotations.
- Compensation
- $154K–$185K / yr
- Location
- United States (Remote)
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Solid experience with at least one programming language (they use Go; Python, C, C++, Rust or similar translates well)
- Experience delivering projects from requirements through shipping to customers in a self-driven way
- Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or some systems engineering experience
- Some experience being on-call and following the DevOps model
- Experience writing clean, robust, performant, easily maintained software
- Familiarity with observability systems; knowing when to use metrics, logs, traces to debug
- Good communication and collaboration skills for a fully remote squad setup
- Pragmatism: breaking down complex challenges into modular solutions, MVPs, and iterative delivery
Nice to have
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Experience with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol
- Has been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (on-call or homelab)
- Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or desire to learn
- Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code
Full description
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the US and Canada.What is Grafana Cloud?
Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.
The Databases team owns and operates the telemetry databases that are Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles. Our databases are offered as a hosted service in Grafana Cloud, and additionally as on-premise solutions with Grafana Enterprise Metrics, Grafana Enterprise Logs, and Grafana Enterprise Traces. They are multi-tenant distributed systems implemented in Go and operating at scale on Kubernetes across all major Cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software.
Mimir Squad
The Mimir squad has two sub-squads, Ingest and Query, which together maintain the Mimir OSS project, and additionally own and operate Grafana Cloud Metrics across three major cloud providers. Engineers on the team focus on optimizing the efficiency and resilience of processing, storing, and querying metrics at large volumes. These services operate at a large scale and performance is key to keeping the offering competitive and running smoothly.