Staff Backend Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote; applicants must be located in Spain, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, or Germany. In-person onboarding is expected.

Salary: €94,025–€112,830 base compensation annually in Spain, plus RSUs.

Company

hirify.global builds Grafana Cloud, an open-source-based observability platform that helps organizations monitor systems, resolve incidents, and manage telemetry at scale.

What you will do

• Design, implement, test, and operate backend services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval orchestration, API access, source configuration, and administration.
• Build a scalable multi-tenant SaaS foundation with tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries.
• Create APIs and service interfaces for AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve context, provenance, confidence signals, and warnings.
• Balance rapid experimentation with long-term reliability as the product evolves from internal dogfooding to production.
• Instrument and operate services using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards.
• Shape architecture, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices for a new product area.

Requirements

• Strong experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems.
• Practical experience with AI technologies, LLMs, prompt engineering, and GenAI applications.
• Experience delivering software that reached production and is actively used by customers.
• Exposure to cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior.
• Ability to work autonomously, communicate clearly, iterate quickly, and make pragmatic decisions in ambiguous environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with agent frameworks or multi-agent workflows.
• Experience as a data analyst or with data platforms such as Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Snowflake, or Databricks.
• Experience building tools for data engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work with regular video meetings and primarily asynchronous written communication.
• Autonomous, collaborative, and innovation-driven environment with transparent decision-making.
• Open-source culture and high-trust teams focused on meaningful product outcomes.
• RSUs for all roles and defined career growth opportunities.
• 30 days of annual leave, including three Grafana shutdown days, subject to local legislation.
• In-person onboarding with other new Grafanistas.