Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | US | Remote

<div class="content-intro"><p>Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with <a href="https://grafana.com/products/cloud/">Grafana Cloud</a> or self-managed with the <a href="https://grafana.com/products/enterprise/">Grafana Enterprise Stack</a>, both featuring scalable metrics (<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/mimir/">Grafana Mimir</a>), logs (<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/loki/">Grafana Loki</a>), and traces (<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/">Grafana Tempo</a>).</p> <p>We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.</p> <p>You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.</p></div><h4>This is a remote position in US and Canada. </h4> <h4><strong>The Opportunity:</strong></h4> <p>We are the creators of <a href="https://github.com/grafana/Pyroscope">Pyroscope</a>, an open-source continuous profiling database that offers rapid, scalable, highly reliable, and efficient storage and querying capabilities. It aids in gaining a comprehensive insight into resource utilization within applications, right down to the specific line of code. The project seamlessly integrates with Grafana, enabling users to correlate profiling data with metrics, logs, and traces, and leverage profiles as a crucial component of application observability. Our dedicated backend development team works closely with clients and the Grafana Cloud teams to deliver profiling solutions for on-premises and cloud environments at scale.</p> <p>In our expansive domain, some of the projects we have undertaken include:</p> <ul> <li>Implementing distributed systems to effectively manage profile ingestion and queries.</li> <li>Establishing instrumentation support for various programming languages including Golang, Dotnet, Java, Ruby, eBPF, Python, Node.js, and Rust.</li> <li>Built Enhanced the functionality of the Pyroscope plugins to provide users with an intuitive interface for exploring and analyzing application profiles.</li> </ul> <p>This position focuses on implementing distributed systems to effectively manage profile ingestion and queries.</p> <p>Pyroscope is trusted by leading multinational companies for essential applications and infrastructure. We prioritize innovation and inclusivity, empowering every team member to share ideas that improve our product as a dependable solution.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Be Doing: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements</li> <li>Lead projects from concept to implementation, including ongoing customer support</li> <li>Design, build, operate, and maintain essential systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability</li> <li>Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives </li> <li>Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee</li> <li>Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues</li> <li>Expand your skill set by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase</li> <li>As we have embraced a remote-first approach and ou ... (truncated, view full listing at source)