Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Second Horizon | Germany | Remote

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries. We are building an AI-native data intelligence system as part of a skunkworks initiative called Grafana Second Horizon. The goal is to make Grafana the single best place where humans and AI agents understand and act on real-time data from across the enterprise.

We are looking for a Staff-level Backend Engineer to help build the first production services for this context layer management system. You will design and ship the core backend architecture that powers ingestion, context storage, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations.

• Build the core backend services: design, implement, test, and operate services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval orchestration, API access, source configuration, and system administration.
• Create a scalable SaaS foundation: multi-tenant service with tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries.
• Power agent-facing retrieval workflows: build APIs and service interfaces for AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications.
• Work across product and infrastructure, making tradeoffs between fast experimentation and long-term reliability.
• Operate what you build: instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards.
• Contribute to technical direction: architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices.

• Strong engineering skills: solid experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems.
• AI experience with a practical mindset: familiar with AI technologies and frameworks.
• Quick iteration and experimentation: comfortable releasing prototypes and iterating.
• Proven initiative: take ownership and drive projects forward.
• Collaborative attitude: effective communication and openness to feedback.
• Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and building applications powered by GenAI.
• Proven track record of delivering software that made it into production.
• Exposure to cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior.

Bonus points for experience with agent frameworks, data platforms (Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, DataBricks), and data engineering tools.

In Germany, the base compensation range is EUR 109,709 - EUR 131,651. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable), and other benefits. We offer a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.

This is a remote opportunity, and we are interested in applicants located in Spain, Sweden, UK, Ireland, or Germany.