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.Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. This is a remote opportunity, and we would be interested in applicants located in the US or Canada.

At Grafana

Labs, we build observability tools that help users understand, respond to, and improve their systems – regardless of scale, complexity, or tech stack. Our goal is to make Grafana the single best place where humans and AI agents understand and act on real-time data from across the enterprise. As part of this initiative, we are building an AI-native data intelligence system that gives agents reliable, governed access to enterprise context.

This system helps agents retrieve the right data, metadata, definitions, lineage, quality signals, and institutional knowledge without every agent builder having to maintain their own brittle context files.

The principle is simple: the context system retrieves, agents decide, and data teams maintain the intelligence. We’re looking for a Senior Software (Database) Engineer to help build the underlying storage system for our general purpose data platform. The database layer has both OLAP and OTLP capabilities to support classic analytics queries while also serving up freshly stored data.

This is an early-stage role on a high-autonomy team, so you should be comfortable working through ambiguity,



making pragmatic architectural decisions, and building systems that can evolve from internal dogfooding to production-grade SaaS. Take ownership over and build one or multiple parts of the database: Design, implement, test, and operate ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, data formats, storage formats.

Create a scalable SaaS foundation: Help define and build the architecture for a multi-tenant database service, including tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries. Build APIs and database interfaces that allow AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve data quickly. Partner with the team to make practical tradeoffs between fast experimentation and long-term reliability, especially as the project moves from prototype to production.

Instrument database services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards.

Contribute to technical direction: Help shape the architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices for a new product area. Take full ownership of the database solutions you develop, ensuring they are not only innovative but also scalable, maintainable, and aligned with real user workflows. Solid experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems.

You’re a self-starter, capable of tackling complex engineering problems and making design decisions with minimal supervision.

AI experience with a practical mindset: You’re familiar with AI technologies and frameworks, and you focus on delivering high-quality solutions that work in the real world, not just in theory. You take ownership and drive projects forward, pushing boundaries to find the most impactful solutions.



Mastery of a programming language like golang, C++, or Rust Proven track record of delivering software that made it into production and is actively used by users. AWS, GCP, Azure).

Bonus Points for: Experience building distributed query engines.

Experience building data warehouses and/or data lakes.

Experience building tools for data engineering. We are a remote-first team that meets regularly over video and does most of our work asynchronously, in writing. We value creativity, diverse perspectives, and clear communication.

All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally. *100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose. ~ Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things. ~ Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work. ~ Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics. ~ Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do. ~ Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. We will comply with local legislation where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a solid organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.

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📌 Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics | Canada | Remote (Calgary)
🏢 Grafanalabs
📍 Calgary