Senior Backend Engineer – Mimir | USA | Remote

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February 19, 2026
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Job Description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Mimir squad within the Databases team. This is a remote-first position, open to candidates in U.S. time zones only.

Grafana Cloud integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles, leveraging open-source tools like Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope. As part of the Mimir team, you’ll work on high-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems, optimizing performance, reliability, and resilience of telemetry databases.

🔹 What You’ll Be Doing

  • Influence the team roadmap and shape your career objectives.
  • Deliver new features and iterate using feedback to improve solutions.
  • Drive projects from idea to operational production.
  • Contribute to the open-source ecosystem beyond your squad.
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical backend systems ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
  • Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations for owned services.
  • Collaborate with teammates, contribute to design discussions, and support others in development.
  • Learn deeply about cloud products, distributed systems, and Grafana’s codebase.
  • Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GPT-Codex, Claude, Gemini) for prototyping, testing, and documentation.

🔹 What Makes You a Great Fit

  • Motivated self-starter with a bias for action and strong customer focus.
  • Pragmatic approach: break down complex challenges and iterate quickly.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills in a fully remote environment.
  • Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, Python/C/C++/Rust acceptable).
  • Experience delivering projects from requirements to customer deployment.
  • Familiarity with cloud software and DevOps practices, including on-call rotations.
  • Write clean, robust, performant software maintainable by others.
  • Understand observability systems, knowing when to use metrics, logs, and traces to debug issues.

Bonus Points:

  • Experience with Kubernetes.
  • Experience with queue systems like Kafka.
  • Previous use of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles.
  • Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure as code concepts.

🔹 Compensation & Rewards

  • Base Salary: USD 154,445 – USD 185,334 (U.S. candidates).
  • Additional benefits may include equity, bonuses, and other company-specific perks.
  • Actual compensation depends on experience, level, and interview assessment.