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The role
The company is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for the Mimir Query squad in its Databases team, which runs the metrics, logs, traces and profiles databases behind Grafana Cloud. Remote; the posting asks for candidates in US time zones.
What you will do
- Design, build, operate and maintain critical distributed systems, owning reliability, performance and availability
- Drive projects from idea through to operation in customers' hands
- Deliver new features and iterate on the results
- Write and review pull requests and design documents, and shepherd automated release rollouts
- Join a follow-the-sun on-call rotation for the services you run
- Contribute to open-source projects beyond the team's scope
What they ask for
- Solid experience with at least one programming language; the team uses Go, and Python, C, C++ or Rust translate well
- Experience leading projects from requirements to shipping to customers
- Ability to break complex problems into short feedback loops and modular solutions
- Good communication and time management in a fully remote squad
- Based in US time zones
What they offer
- Company-funded budget for AI coding assistants
- Access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google
- 100% remote company
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