Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases Remote

Grafana Labs is hiring a remote candidate for Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases | USA | Remote. This is a full time position.

Work location:

USA. The role typically involves technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Python, Rust, Go, AWS.

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions.

Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost.

We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re 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 Linked In 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.

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Drive projects from initial idea all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers.
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability.
• Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on‑call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running.
• Support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team.
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system.

We invest heavily in developer productivity. 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 with strong code review and quality standards.

You'll also have access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

• You are a motivated self‑starter with a bias towards action.
• You are customer focused.
• We build everything with our users in mind.
• You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs.
• You have good time management skills, which you leverage to work on the right things at the right time.
• Pragmatism:
  You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively.
• Collaboration and communication:
  The smallest unit we have is a squad. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup.
• Good communication and time management skills are a must.
• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++,…