# Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | US | Remote

**Company:** [Grafana Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/grafana-labs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $154k – $185k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Cloud Systems, SRE, Infrastructure As Code
**Posted:** 2026-06-16

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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