Grafana Labs is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to design, implement, test, and operate the initial production services for an AI-native context layer (ingestion, indexing, retrieval APIs, and agent integrations). The role focuses on building a scalable multi-tenant SaaS foundation, instrumenting and operating services, and working across product and infrastructure. Experience with LLMs/GenAI, cloud-native environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), observability tooling, and shipping production-grade backend services is emphasized. Compensation range for applicants in the Republic of Ireland is EUR 117,600 - EUR 141,120 per year.

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Backend Engineer to build the first production services for an AI-native context layer: context ingestion, indexing, retrieval orchestration, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations. The role focuses on creating a scalable multi-tenant SaaS foundation (tenant isolation, quotas, audit logs), operating services with observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerts), and working in cloud-native environments. Remote position; applicants in Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ireland, and Germany are explicitly invited. Germany base compensation range is EUR 109,709–131,651.

Lead development of a personalized, real-time recommendation system for Grafana's Interactive Learning plugin. Responsibilities include building, validating, deploying, and monitoring recommendation models and feature pipelines; defining offline and online evaluation and experimentation; shipping incremental improvements; and partnering with software engineers, data analysts, and product teams to productionize models and measure impact. Role is fully remote and targeting candidates in Germany.

Lead technical strategy and roadmap for Adaptive Telemetry databases; own architecture, reliability, performance, cost, and end-to-end delivery of large cross-functional initiatives. Define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident response and post-mortems, improve observability and automation, align stakeholders, and mentor senior and mid-level engineers. Role expects strong systems-design instincts, experience shipping and operating large distributed systems, cloud-native and platform experience (containers/Kubernetes, IaC), coding proficiency (Go and similar), familiarity with observability tooling and messaging systems (Prometheus/Grafana, Kafka), and comfort with AI-assisted development.

Senior engineering role owning architecture, reliability, performance and end-to-end delivery for telemetry databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) within Grafana Cloud. Responsibilities include driving technical strategy and roadmap, defining SLOs/SLIs, leading incident response, improving observability and automation, mentoring engineers, and coordinating cross-functional delivery. Strong experience with distributed systems, cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes, IaC), Go (or similar), and observability tooling is emphasized.

Grafana Labs seeks a Staff AI Engineer for a remote skunkworks team (2nd Horizon) to design, develop, test, and ship AI/LLM- and agent-powered analytics features that work with large datasets. The role emphasizes rapid experimentation, production-quality software delivery, cloud-native experience, observability, and collaboration with internal teams. Compensation range for Sweden is provided; candidates are being considered in DEU, IRL, SWE, ESP, and GBR.

Grafana Labs seeks a Staff AI Engineer to design, develop, test, and ship AI-powered features (LLM/GenAI and agent workflows) for analytics and observability. The role emphasizes rapid prototyping, production-grade software delivery, cloud-native environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), and integration with observability and internal tooling. This is a remote position considering candidates located in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Listed Spain base compensation: €94,000–€117,000.

Grafana Labs seeks a Staff AI Engineer for the 2nd Horizon skunkworks team to design, develop, test, and ship AI-driven analytics features that operate on large datasets. The role focuses on building production-grade, high-performance features using LLMs/GenAI and agentic components, rapid prototyping and iteration with real users, cloud-native deployment, and observability for troubleshooting. Candidates should have practical experience with LLMs/context engineering, delivering software to production, and familiarity with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure).

Grafana Labs seeks a Staff AI Engineer for a skunkworks 2nd Horizon team to design, develop, test, and ship AI-powered, production-grade features (LLM/agent-driven) focused on analytics and large datasets. The role involves rapid prototyping, cloud-native development (AWS/GCP/Azure), observability, integrations (e.g., Slack/alerts), and collaborating with internal data teams. Position is remote with candidates considered in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, and the UK; Germany base compensation range provided.

Build the first production services for a context layer management system: ingestion, indexing, retrieval orchestration, APIs, and agent-facing integrations. Help define a scalable multi-tenant SaaS foundation (tenant isolation, quotas, audit logs, background jobs), instrument and operate services, and contribute to technical direction. Requirements include experience delivering production software, working with LLMs/GenAI and prompt engineering, cloud-native environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), and observability tools.

Senior/Staff backend role responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and operating services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations for an AI-native data intelligence system. Requires experience with LLMs/GenAI, cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure), observability practices, and building production-grade multi-tenant SaaS systems. Canada base compensation range listed (CAD 186,368–223,642).

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Software Engineer on Tempo, the open-source distributed tracing backend powering Grafana Cloud Traces. Responsibilities include leading multi-quarter initiatives, owning architecture for ingestion/storage/query, designing APIs (including LLM-friendly interfaces), driving operational excellence (SLOs, autoscaling, toil reduction), mentoring engineers, participating in on-call, and contributing to open source. The role is remote; Grafana lists a UK base compensation range of GBP 103,958–124,750.

Join the Tempo team to own architecture for ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation; lead multi-quarter initiatives (e.g., trace aggregation, autoscaling, query performance); drive operational excellence and SLOs; collaborate with product and sibling teams; participate in on-call and open-source contributions. Compensation range for Sweden provided.

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Software Engineer on the Tempo team to own architecture and delivery for ingestion, storage, query, metrics generation, and operational scale. The role focuses on performance, autoscaling, API and TraceQL evolution, reducing toil, and enabling downstream AI/agent consumers. Base compensation in Spain is listed as EUR 94,025–112,830 (annual); position is remote and contributes to the open-source Tempo project.

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Software Engineer on the Tempo team to lead multi-quarter technical initiatives across ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation. Work includes driving operational excellence (SLOs, autoscaling, runbooks), improving query performance and APIs (TraceQL, agent/LLM-friendly interfaces), mentoring engineers, participating in on-call rotation, and contributing to open-source Tempo. Role is remote with an advertised Ireland base salary range (EUR 117,600 - 141,120).

Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives for Tempo, owning architecture and operational outcomes for ingestion, storage, query, and metrics. Work cross-functionally with product and sibling teams, mentor engineers, participate in on-call and incident response, and contribute to the Tempo open-source project.

Remote staff-level backend role focused on Grafana Alerting. Responsibilities include designing, building, operating, and maintaining large-scale distributed alerting systems (ingestion, evaluation, delivery), driving features from ideation to production, mentoring teammates, and contributing to open-source. Go is preferred; experience with Prometheus, cloud systems, and on-call operation is emphasized. UK compensation range provided.

Remote staff backend role on Grafana Labs' Alerting squad based in/considering applicants from Ireland. Responsibilities include designing, building, operating, and maintaining scalable distributed systems for alert ingestion, evaluation and delivery (Prometheus/Grafana alerts), participating in on-call rotations, mentoring teammates, and contributing to open-source. Compensation range in Ireland: EUR 117,600–141,120 per year.

Join the Grafana Alerting squad to design, build, operate, and maintain distributed alerting systems used at scale. The role involves driving projects end-to-end, contributing to open-source, participating in on-call rotations, and collaborating in a remote team. Strong backend engineering experience (Go or similar languages), cloud/systems engineering familiarity, and focus on reliability and scalability are highlighted.

Remote Staff Software Engineer - SRE at Grafana Labs responsible for ensuring reliability of Grafana Cloud database products (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) provided across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Duties include owning production reliability for high-SLA customers, defining and evolving per-tenant SLOs, automation to scale reliability practices, incident response and post-incident reviews, improving observability and alert quality, and collaborating closely with product engineering teams. Role requests 8+ years engineering experience (4+ in SRE/CRE/production engineering) and strong Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, programming, and Linux experience.