Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | US | Remote

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