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North America

  • Set the technical direction for ServiceNow's Health Log Analytics data platform across collection, ingestion, storage, and query.
  • Partner with engineering, product, and customers to shape the roadmap and turn feedback into clear, actionable plans.
  • Raise the bar through design reviews, mentoring engineers, and leading reliability and efficiency improvements.

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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.

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, built on an open-source legacy and a collaborative, innovation-driven culture.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Architect end-to-end sheet data platform across transactional stores and lakehouse.
  • Design services and APIs for real-time collaboration and AI agents at scale.
  • Lead petabyte-scale migrations while setting architecture standards and mentoring engineers.

Smartsheet is a SaaS platform that helps teams manage work and increasingly coordinates human teams with AI agents. It has been operating for over 20 years and fosters a culture of innovation, inclusion, and professional growth.

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.

$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.

$130,000–$180,000/yr
US

  • Lead architecture and technical decision-making across the data lifecycle, from ingestion to consumption by products and AI.
  • Drive modern engineering approaches through proofs of concept, technology evaluation, and reimagining solutions for scale.
  • Mentor engineers and build a culture of strong software engineering practices, experimentation, and shared technical ownership.

Applied Systems provides software, data, and intelligent systems that connect agencies and carriers across the insurance lifecycle. With 40+ years in insurtech, the company builds on a culture of learning, experimentation, and shared ownership.

North America Unlimited PTO

  • Architect how GitLab and third-party data is ingested, modeled, and synced into a near-real-time knowledge graph.
  • Lead integration with external systems and architect the Data Marketplace for Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery.
  • Define operational readiness and mentor senior and intermediate engineers across the team.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations increase developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. With more than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance, AI-driven culture where every voice is valued.

Europe

  • Architect and optimize distributed systems processing billions of documents with low latency.
  • Lead platform modernization and establish engineering best practices.
  • Collaborate with engineers to improve scalability, reliability, and search capabilities.

This company provides AI-driven market intelligence through a high-performance search platform. It is an internationally distributed technology organization serving thousands of enterprise customers, with a collaborative and technically ambitious culture.

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.

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.

Ireland

  • Design and deliver major components of Twilio's carrier test and observability platform.
  • Build high-throughput data and alerting systems that turn telemetry into actionable signals.
  • Extend and harden production LLM systems for automated carrier troubleshooting with safe guardrails.

Twilio is a customer engagement platform that delivers innovative communications solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empowers millions of developers worldwide. The company is remote-first, values connection and global inclusion, and has a vibrant culture where diverse employees make a global impact.

India

  • Lead customer technical projects to deliver production-grade data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform.
  • Design and architect end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.
  • Work hands-on with customers, guiding architecture and empowering adoption through training and implementation.

Databricks is the data and AI company, offering a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, and AI. With more than 20,000 customers including 70% of the Fortune 500, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices globally.

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.

US Unlimited PTO 14w maternity 14w paternity

  • Design, build, and own critical components of the core execution model, including state machine, lifecycle, resource model, and failure semantics.
  • Build reliable distributed systems that behave predictably across retries, restarts, partial failures, and concurrent execution, with security and governance built in.
  • Develop platform APIs/SDKs connecting workflows, agents, tools, and product surfaces, while driving versioning, compatibility, and observability.

Trase Systems is an end-to-end platform for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise, specializing in the "last mile" of AI adoption. Co-founded in 2023 and backed by Red Cell Partners, Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation and operates in healthcare, oil & gas, and national security.

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.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Build a cutting-edge cloud-native database platform on top of the public cloud.
  • Work on our in-house Kubernetes operator to support seamless infrastructure management.
  • Architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.

ClickHouse builds a cloud-native database platform and is transforming its open-source columnar database into a serverless solution. The company is a rapidly scaling global startup with a remote-friendly culture operating in over 25 countries.

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.

  • Design and build production-grade systems end-to-end, from problem definition through deployment and operations.
  • Work across application services, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and ML systems, debugging complex issues across multiple layers.
  • Frame problems correctly, applying ML when needed, and ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa's all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools. As Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer processing over $250 billion annually, we prioritize our people's well-being and foster a culture of innovation and teamwork.

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.

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.

$180,000–$230,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Drive architectural decisions across the [R]AIMS platform, balancing performance, scalability, security, and maintainability.
  • Lead major technical epics from conception through delivery, decomposing ambiguous problems into executable plans.
  • Mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and raise technical execution across the platform.

Raft is a customer-obsessed, non-traditional defense technology company focused on AI/ML and data solutions for U.S. military and government agencies. Its culture emphasizes radical transparency, hyper-collaboration, and innovation with a mission-driven focus.