Backend Engineer - Session Replay Remote ; Remote

United States (Remote)

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse that serves over 20M users globally.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Session Replay squad, you will lead the technical direction and architectural evolution of a new Grafana Cloud product. Session Replay connects frontend signals to concrete session-level evidence, enabling faster and more confident investigation of production issues.

Responsibilities include:

• Own end-to-end technical direction for Session Replay across frontend, backend, and data systems.
• Drive the evolution of our backend architecture
  , including designing systems around columnar/analytical data storage for large‑scale session data, defining data models, ingestion pipelines, and query patterns.
• Lead the design of investigation workflows that connect replay with logs, metrics, traces, and other telemetry across Grafana Cloud.
• Make high‑leverage architectural decisions that impact multiple teams and products.
• Partner with teams across Grafana (Frontend Observability, Synthetic Monitoring, Core Grafana) to build cohesive cross‑product experiences.
• Improve engineering standards, patterns, and operational practices within the team.
• Mentor engineers and help grow technical leadership within the team.

• Go for backend services and APIs.
• Columnar / analytical data storage and query engine.
• Object storage (S3, GCS, Azure Blob) and MySQL.

• Comfortable working in a remote‑first company and communicating effectively in English.
• Collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful; able to contribute, dissent constructively, and commit to consensus.
• Ability to reason about data‑intensive systems: ingestion, storage, querying, cost trade‑offs.
• Comfortable owning features in ambiguous problem spaces and working independently.
• Understanding of a user‑centered software development process and ability to build solutions with maximum value.
• Enjoy working on complex solutions and valuing code maintainability, readability, and automation.

• Experience with columnar/analytical databases.
• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc.).
• Experience building debugging or developer‑focused tools.
• Familiarity with privacy, security, and access control in data‑heavy systems.

In the United States, the base compensation range for this role is USD 174,. Benefits include equity and bonus (if applicable). Compensation ranges are country‑specific; if applying from a different location, the recruiter will discuss the specific market’s pay range and benefits.

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunity employer that recruits, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all other relevant characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and are committed to diversity and inclusion.