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Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | US | Remote

Senior backend engineer focused on building and operating distributed systems for Pyroscope's continuous profiling database, handling profile ingestion, queries, and cloud-scale reliability. Requires strong distributed systems and Kubernetes experience plus proficiency in Go or similar languages.

154k – 185k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

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

What Makes You a Great Fit

  • Motivated self-starter with a bias toward action
  • Passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
  • Pragmatism: able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops
  • Collaboration and communication skills for fully remote team work
  • Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred; Python, C, C++, Rust also relevant)
  • Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering through shipping to customers in a self-driven way
  • Strong experience designing and developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering experience
  • Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
  • Experience with on-call, operations/SRE tasks, or infrastructure as code
  • Solid experience with distributed systems
  • Experience working with Kubernetes

Bonus Points

  • User of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles
  • Exposure to microservices architecture
  • Databases backend experience

Compensation & Benefits

  • Compensation range: $154,445 - $185,334 USD (US)
  • All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • 100% remote, global culture
  • 30 days annual leave (3 reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days)
  • In-person onboarding
  • Company-funded AI coding assistant usage budget

Skills

GoPythonCC++RustKubernetesDistributed SystemsCloud SystemsSREInfrastructure As Code

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