Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Canada | Remote

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. P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital.

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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. In our expansive domain, some of the projects we have undertaken include: Implementing distributed systems to effectively manage profile ingestion and queries. js, and Rust.

Built Enhanced the functionality of the Pyroscope plugins to provide users with an intuitive interface for exploring and analyzing application profiles. This position focuses on implementing distributed systems to effectively manage profile ingestion and queries. Pyroscope is trusted by leading multinational companies for essential applications and infrastructure.

We prioritize innovation and inclusivity, empowering every team member to share ideas that improve our product as a dependable solution. What You'll Be Doing: 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 Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues 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. We provide support and hold regular meetings through video calls to ensure effective collaboration and alignment.

We invest heavily in developer productivity.