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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.

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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.

Canada 6w PTO

  • Drive technical strategy and roadmap for adaptive telemetry databases.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects.
  • Own architecture, reliability, performance, and cost for critical systems.

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 we foster a collaborative, open-source culture.

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.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build high-throughput data replication integrations with databases, data lakes, and warehouses.
  • Own end-to-end reliability for production systems, including debugging infrastructure and on-call.
  • Collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams to drive product innovation and roadmap.

ClickHouse develops an open-source column-oriented database management system and offers the ClickPipes platform for real-time data replication. The company is globally distributed across over 25 countries with a hyper-growth startup culture that values open source, continuous learning, and in-person connection.

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 build agent runtime infrastructure with Firecracker, Rust, and Go
  • Define and enforce security boundaries for running untrusted AI agents
  • Architect global scale distributed systems for scheduling and orchestration

We build agent sandboxes—runtime infrastructure that is fast, durable, and secure by default for AI systems. We are a small, globally distributed team based in San Francisco backed by forward-thinking investors.

$196,000–$230,000/yr
US

  • Design and operate Airbnb's NewSQL database, focusing on performance, reliability, and stability at scale.
  • Work on database internals, including query execution, storage engines, replication, and consensus.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build migration infrastructure and ensure smooth adoption.

Airbnb is a global online marketplace for lodging and experiences, connecting hosts with guests in nearly every country. The company has grown to over 5 million hosts and 2 billion guest arrivals, fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging.

India

  • Own and drive impactful distributed systems problems end-to-end, from inception through production launch.
  • Collaborate with a strong engineering team to prioritize and solve the most important problems for the company.
  • Raise the quality bar while keeping systems reliable and operationally lean, and mentor fellow engineers.

StarTree is a cloud-based software company that enables businesses to derive advanced insights from real-time and historical data using Apache Pinot. The company was founded by the core engineering team behind Apache Pinot, has secured Series B funding, and was named one of The Information's 50 Most Promising Startups.

$139,200–$235,200/yr
Canada United States Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and operate GitLab Orbit backend services, primarily in Rust, within a distributed, cloud-native environment.
  • Improve deployment, monitoring, and operations using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and cloud services from AWS or GCP.
  • Automate operational work, strengthen observability, and manage production issues to reduce single points of failure.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate digital transformation. Trusted by more than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by shared values and continuous knowledge exchange.

India

  • Translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable solution designs.
  • Work directly with stakeholders from C-suite to developers to enable customer success.
  • Evangelize ClickHouse’s vision and capabilities to drive adoption and secure strategic commitments.

ClickHouse provides a real-time analytics database for cloud-native applications. We are a rapidly scaling startup with a globally distributed team of over 25 countries, fostering a culture of innovation and flexibility.

$77,000–$106,700/yr
France

  • Design and develop scalable search and indexing systems for an AI search engine.
  • Ensure operational excellence by participating in on-call rotation and maintaining system quality.
  • Collaborate with a global remote team to solve distributed system challenges.

Algolia is a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering over 18,000 businesses to deliver blazing-fast search experiences. With $150 million in Series D funding and a valuation of $2.25 billion, the company fosters a high-trust, flexible culture and values diversity and collaboration.

US

  • Build core data platform capabilities, developing services and APIs for data access, query execution, ingestion, and synchronization.
  • Make integrations reusable by building connector frameworks that support different systems without bespoke implementations.
  • Own execution reliability by building orchestration, retries, checkpointing, and observability for predictable workload recovery.

Tessera Labs is redefining how enterprises adopt and operationalize AI by building multi-agent systems that automate complex business workflows across platforms like SAP and Salesforce. Backed by top venture capital firms and built by leaders from Meta AI and Google Research, they move fast and operate with extreme ownership.

Europe US 5w PTO 16w maternity 6w paternity

  • Turn product requirements into technical requirements, model the domain, define interfaces, and navigate trade-offs.
  • Break large problems into work others can own and sequence delivery for early value.
  • Drive high-impact architectural decisions across the data platform and own components end to end.

Dune is a collaborative multi-chain analytics platform that makes crypto data accessible to developers, analysts, and investors. The team of ~60 employees works across Europe and eastern US timezones with a fully remote-first approach.

India

  • Define and evolve the long-term database and data infrastructure strategy across the company.
  • Lead complex, cross-team initiatives such as database migrations, sharding, and multiregion architectures.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar for database and distributed-systems engineering.

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

Poland

  • Solve complex problems and own the success of your solutions as you architect, build, test, and deliver full-stack products.
  • Communicate, collaborate, and develop with engineers, platform teams, product managers, designers, and support teams.
  • Build upon skills across technologies such as Go, GraphQL, Typescript, React, and MySQL, while owning the operational health of production systems.

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, a platform that helps organizations harness IoT data to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability of physical operations. As a recently public company, Samsara fosters a culture of growth mindset and collaboration, with a team of builders focused on long-term impact.

Poland

  • Design and build highly scalable distributed systems to support global expansion across multiple countries and regulatory environments.
  • Partner closely with product, operations, payments, logistics, and platform teams to own critical operational and transactional systems.
  • Work on cross-border transaction infrastructure, tax and regulatory compliance, international post-purchase experiences, and marketplace operational tooling.

Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, enabling sellers to build businesses across hundreds of categories. They are a remote co-located team with hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia, and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America.

Romania 5w PTO 16w maternity 6w paternity

  • Design and build distributed data systems handling large-scale ingestion and processing.
  • Drive architectural decisions and take end-to-end ownership of critical components.
  • Collaborate with product teams to translate ambiguous requirements into robust technical solutions.

Our partner builds a large-scale, multi-chain data platform that ingests, models, and delivers blockchain data to users and developers. They are a remote-first, distributed team with a strong engineering culture focused on ownership and collaboration.

United States Canada

  • Design and build Go-based automation for full PostgreSQL lifecycle management, including provisioning, upgrades, and scaling.
  • Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to deliver high-performance solutions for internet-scale databases.
  • Build repeatable automation for PostgreSQL major version upgrades and operate services in production.

GitLab provides a DevSecOps platform for intelligent software development. With over 50 million users and a high-performance culture driven by values and AI, the company fosters innovation and collaboration.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Architect and implement backend services in Go, designing APIs and distributed systems that scale reliably.
  • Ensure performance, resilience, and fault tolerance in production environments.
  • Collaborate with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to deliver features from concept to launch.

Aries.com is the first open-source brokerage for active traders, and Finance.dev provides developer infrastructure for trading products. They are a dynamic team that values urgency, initiative, and engineering excellence, operating with a hybrid company model hiring everywhere.

India

  • Build and operate core platform components like queues, storage layers, caching, schedulers, and rate limiters.
  • Own architecture, implementation, monitoring, and production reliability for high-throughput distributed systems.
  • Work with Node.js/TypeScript, Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Redis, MongoDB, and other large-scale data technologies.

The hiring company builds and operates platform infrastructure for large-scale CRM, automation, and communication systems, processing billions of events and messages monthly. Its engineering culture emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and high standards for reliability and production quality.