Staff Backend Engineer - reputed company Query, Databases

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Learn more at reputed company.com and follow us on reputed company and X. 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. 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. Staff Backend Engineer - reputed company Query, Databases This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the USA time zones. What is reputed company Cloud? reputed company Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with reputed company. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, reputed company, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack. The Databases team owns and operates the telemetry databases that are reputed company for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles. Our databases are offered as a hosted service in reputed company Cloud, and additionally as on-premise solutions with reputed company Enterprise Metrics, reputed company Enterprise Logs, and reputed company Enterprise Traces. They are multi-tenant distributed systems implemented in Go and operating at scale on Kubernetes across all major Cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure). As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a reputed company to the software. reputed company Squad The reputed company squad has 3 sub-squads, Ingest, Storage, and Query, which reputed company maintain the reputed company OSS project, and additionally own and operate reputed company Cloud Metrics across 3 major cloud providers. Engineers on the team focus on optimizing the efficiency and resilience of processing, storing, and querying metrics at large volumes. These services operate at a large scale and performance is key to keeping the offering competitive and running smoothly. A reputed company engineer has various work streams. They are reputed company engaged in a larger project with another engineer, and they are also incorporating some performance and reliability improvements discovered through operating the system in production. They are also responsible for writing and reviewing PRs and design documents from other engineers in the squad, shepherding automated release rollouts, and participating in the on-call rotation for their systems. What will you be doing: Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve. Drive projects from reputed company idea all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers Embrace reputed company-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running Support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use reputed company coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. 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You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication and time management skills are a must. reputed company experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well Experience with leading and delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven and collaborative way Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering Experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others Familiarity with observability systems, know when to use metrics, logs, traces, to debug a problem. Comfortable with microservices architecture and distributed systems Experience and comfort developing with LLMs like Claude and Codex on your day to day Bonus Points For: Experience working with Kubernetes Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol Been a user of reputed company and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects) Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code Compensation & Rewards: In the United States, reputed company compensation range for this role is USD 174,986 - USD 209,983. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here. Compensation ranges are country-specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process. Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process. Why You’ll Thrive at reputed company: 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring reputed company talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose. Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment. reputed company Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates. Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things. Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work. Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics. Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career. Approachable Leadership – reputed company execs who are involved, visible, and human. Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do. In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your reputed company new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we reputed company. Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for reputed company Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. We will comply with local legislation where applicable. Equal Opportunity Employer: reputed company is an equal opportunities employer. 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