engineering
Posted Feb 18Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Canada | Remote
at Grafana Labs
CanadaRemote
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements
- Lead projects from concept to implementation, including ongoing customer support
- Design, build, operate, and maintain essential systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability
- Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues
Requirements
- There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps.
- Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack , both featuring scalable metrics ( Grafana Mimir ), logs ( Grafana Loki ), and traces ( Grafana Tempo ).
- Establishing instrumentation support for various programming languages including Golang, Dotnet, Java, Ruby, eBPF, Python, Node.js, and Rust.
- Expand your skill set by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase
- As we have embraced a remote-first approach and our engineering team is primarily remote, it is essential to possess strong communication skills and the ability to work independently.
- You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction.
- We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always paired with strong code review and quality standards.
- You’ll also have access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro).
- experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar, then that translates well Some
- experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way Strong
- experience with designing and developing software that runs in the Cloud or
- experience with systems engineering •
- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others. •
- Experience with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code Solid
- experience with distributed systems •
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
- Databases backend experience
- Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings.
Benefits
- Bonus Points For:
- In Canada, the compensation range for this role is $186,368 - $223,642 CAD.
- Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process.
- *Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range &
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique.
Additional details
- Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse.
- The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France.
- 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 in US and Canada. The Opportunity:
- We are the creators of Pyroscope , an open-source continuous profiling database that offers rapid, scalable, highly reliable, and efficient storage and querying capabilities.
- It aids in gaining a comprehensive insight into resource utilization within applications, right down to the specific line of code.
- The project seamlessly integrates with Grafana, enabling users to correlate profiling data with metrics, logs, and traces, and leverage profiles as a crucial component of application observability.
- Our dedicated backend development team works closely with clients and the Grafana Cloud teams to deliver profiling solutions for on-premises and cloud environments at scale.