Staff Backend Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote, with applicants based in Spain, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, or Germany

Base compensation in Sweden: SEK 878,578–1,054,294 annually

Company

hirify.global builds Grafana Cloud, an open-source and open-standards observability platform used to monitor systems, resolve incidents, and analyze telemetry at scale.

What you will do

• Design, implement, test, and operate backend services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval orchestration, APIs, 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.
• Develop APIs and service interfaces for AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve context, provenance, confidence signals, and warnings.
• Shape architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices for a new product area.
• Instrument and operate services using metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards while improving reliability as the system moves from prototype to production.
• Collaborate across product and infrastructure, make pragmatic architectural tradeoffs, and take ownership of scalable AI solutions.

Requirements

• Staff-level experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems.
• Practical experience with AI technologies, LLMs, prompt engineering, and GenAI-powered applications.
• Experience delivering software used by customers and working effectively through ambiguity with minimal supervision.
• Experience with cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior.
• Applicants must be located in Spain, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, or Germany.

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 mostly asynchronous written collaboration.
• Autonomous, transparent, and highly collaborative environment with open-source values.
• Equity, potential bonus, and country-specific benefits.
• 30 days of annual leave, including three Grafana shutdown days, subject to local legislation.
• In-person onboarding for new team members.
• Career growth pathways and a high-trust, low-ego culture.