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North America 6w PTO

  • Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and own critical systems for Grafana's next-generation storage layer.
  • Collaborate with your team to design, build, operate, and maintain large distributed systems at scale.
  • Mentor teammates and participate in on-call rotations while embracing open-source culture.

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$120,078–$144,094/yr
North America 6w PTO

  • Own technical direction for Tempo, the open-source tracing backend, on multi-month initiatives spanning design, delivery, and operations.
  • Own major components like ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation while driving operational excellence through automation and SLOs.
  • Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, staff, and community teams to evolve Tempo into a platform for observability products.

Grafana Labs builds Grafana Cloud, a managed observability platform trusted by 10,000+ organizations. We are 100% remote with team members in 40+ countries and a collaborative, open-source-driven culture.

North America 6w PTO

  • Design and build the underlying storage system for a general purpose data platform with OLAP and OTLP capabilities.
  • Take ownership of ingestion, query planning, distributed execution, and storage formats for a multi-tenant SaaS database.
  • Partner across teams to build APIs and interfaces for AI agents and internal applications to retrieve data.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, an observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability and optimize telemetry at scale. They are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries and a collaborative, innovation-driven culture.

Canada 5w PTO

  • Lead multi-month engineering initiatives for a distributed tracing platform, from technical design to production operations.
  • Own and improve backend components across data ingestion, storage, query processing, and metrics generation.
  • Mentor engineers, contribute to open source, and build scalable APIs for observability and AI-powered workflows.

Grafana Labs builds open-source observability tools, including the Tempo distributed tracing platform. This remote-first, globally distributed team values autonomy, transparency, and open-source collaboration.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Build reliability into the product by writing production code in our services and the Mimir, Loki, and Tempo codebases.
  • Lead technical design, own the SLO framework, and improve observability and alerting.
  • Be on call for highest-SLA customers, lead incident response, and mentor engineers to multiply impact.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors and driven by an open-source, collaborative culture.

$154,000–$185,000/yr
US Canada 6w PTO

  • Drive projects from initial idea to operations once in the hands of customers
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability
  • Support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital.

India

  • Own architecture health of large-scale distributed systems, including failure modes, capacity constraints, and consistency guarantees.
  • Identify and remediate systemic risks such as single points of failure, unbounded queues, and data-loss scenarios.
  • Work hands-on with Node.js/Go and GCP technologies to prototype solutions and resolve complex failures.

This company operates large-scale distributed systems processing billions of events and messages. Its engineering culture values technical rigor, proactive problem solving, and clear cross-team communication.

North America 6w PTO

  • Building and improving Grafana data source plugins to integrate third-party services and databases into Grafana.
  • Supporting the operations and reliability of our plugins in Grafana Cloud, including on-call rotation.
  • Collaborating with the Grafana Division and integrating data sources with agentic workflows like Grafana Assistant.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors and known for our open-source, collaborative culture.

Canada 6w PTO

  • Drive the evolution of backend architecture for Session Replay, including columnar data storage and query patterns.
  • Lead the design of investigation workflows connecting replay with logs, metrics, and traces across Grafana Cloud.
  • Engage directly with customers to understand their needs and help them instrument and adopt Session Replay successfully.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, an observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations. We are a 100% remote company with a global collaborative culture and a passion for meaningful work.

US

  • Design, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed database and storage systems.
  • Build performance-critical infrastructure using Go, Rust, C++, or similar systems programming languages.
  • Operate production systems and troubleshoot complex reliability, performance, and availability issues.

This company builds and operates large-scale distributed database and storage infrastructure with a focus on low latency and high availability. They offer a fully remote, multinational work environment and comprehensive healthcare coverage.

United States 6w PTO

  • Build and evolve fullstack features for RUM, including frontend user experiences and backend services.
  • Design and implement systems that ingest, store, and query high-cardinality telemetry data using columnar databases.
  • Develop performant query layers, APIs, and frontend applications for real-time user session and trace exploration.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors and fostering a global collaborative culture.

Global

  • Design and develop reliable, scalable backend services and APIs in Go.
  • Build features for monitoring, observability, and management of database environments.
  • Work with OpenTelemetry, distributed systems, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted development.

Percona provides open-source database software, support, and services to enable everyone to innovate freely. We are a remote-only, globally dispersed team of experts across more than 50 countries with a collaborative, highly-engaged culture.

Europe

  • Lead and mentor a high-performing team of senior engineers building distributed systems for decentralized compute and storage.
  • Drive technical direction, stay hands-on with architecture, design, and implementation of P2P networking, compute orchestration, and core platform services.
  • Champion reliability, observability, and engineering practices including automated testing, CI/CD, incident response, and production readiness.

Pragmatike builds decentralized compute and storage platforms powered by distributed systems. They foster a remote-first, async writing-first engineering culture with a focus on pragmatic decision-making and continuous improvement.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Architect and build robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
  • Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on public cloud and automate resource management.
  • Improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency of cloud services.

ClickHouse builds a real-time analytics database platform and manages ClickHouse Cloud data plane end-to-end with compute, networking, and security. As a rapidly scaling global startup, the company operates across 25+ countries and fosters a flexible, remote-friendly culture with equity and healthcare benefits.

Global 5w PTO 16w maternity 6w paternity

  • Design and build distributed systems for ingestion, normalization, processing, storage, and delivery of realtime market data.
  • Build and operate streaming solutions handling event ordering, timestamps, duplicates, replay, gaps, and recovery.
  • Lead technical decisions, write clear designs, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable data platforms.

Dune is a blockchain data and intelligence provider making onchain finance observable, serving 130+ chains and 1,000+ industry leaders. We're a tight-knit team of ~50 hardworking people across Europe and US timezones, humble yet ambitious.

$178,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Set technical direction for observability, including instrumentation, alerting, and dashboard design patterns.
  • Own and evolve metrics, logging, and distributed tracing pipelines across multiple data centers.
  • Mentor engineers and partner with SRE, Storage Engineering, and Network Engineering on observability best practices.

Backblaze is a cloud storage and backup provider serving hundreds of thousands of customers with a custom storage platform across multiple data centers. The company values engineering excellence, transparency, and operational rigor, and is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Mexico

  • Architect and evolve core control and context planes, including service registries, SLO enforcement, and automated canary releases.
  • Own the service chassis and golden path, maintaining multi-language Java/Python libraries, Helm charts, and deployment pipelines.
  • Drive reliability engineering practices, mentor engineers, and lead architectural strategy for distributed systems at production scale.

The company builds large-scale web data products and distributed engineering infrastructure for AI-driven workflows. It operates a remote-first, globally distributed engineering culture focused on reliability, autonomy, and technical excellence.

India

  • Own the architecture health of a billion-scale distributed system, including failure modes, capacity limits, and cross-deployment interactions.
  • Approve critical-path designs and hunt gaps like single points of failure, unbounded queues, and missing idempotency proactively.
  • Build the parts nobody else can, prototype risky architectural bets, and ship remediations after serious incidents.

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Enhance and scale a high-performance data onboarding platform to handle real-time data at petabyte scale.
  • Own and evolve infrastructure across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Drive architectural decisions, improve deployment pipelines, and participate in on-call rotations.

ClickHouse is the company behind the open-source ClickHouse database, providing a high-performance database platform. It is a globally distributed start-up operating in over 25 countries, with a culture that values autonomy, innovation, and impact.

$162,400–$290,000/yr
US

  • Shape the technical direction of the Maps team and build geospatial systems for foundational Samsara features.
  • Scale storage, query, and compute for real-time features and consolidate geospatial solutions into platform offerings.
  • Build agentic self-serve data solutions and raise the technical bar via code reviews, design, and mentorship.

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, a platform that helps organizations harness IoT data to improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of physical operations. As a recently public high-growth company, Samsara fosters a culture focused on customer success, long-term thinking, and inclusive teamwork.

$170,350–$275,550/yr
US 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Design and build core systems for Docker's enterprise agentic platform using Go and Kubernetes.
  • Own production reliability from on-call to SLOs and incident response.
  • Set technical direction and mentor engineers while driving security, identity, and network boundaries.

Docker builds developer tools trusted by over 20 million monthly users and billions of container pulls. It is a globally distributed, remote-first team with a culture of trust, flexibility, and engineering excellence.