Senior Backend Engineer (Databases)

Location: Remote opportunity for applicants located in Spain, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, or Germany

Base compensation in the Republic of Ireland: EUR 104,000–130,000 per year

Company

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

What you will do

• Design, implement, test, and operate database components including ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, and data and storage formats.
• Build the architecture for a scalable multi-tenant database service with tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries.
• Develop APIs and database interfaces for AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve enterprise data and context.
• Balance rapid experimentation with long-term reliability while evolving the project from prototype to production-grade SaaS.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards, and use observability tools to improve reliability.
• 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 and delivering software actively used by customers.
• Experience with distributed systems, catalogs and table formats, and query engines.
• Mastery of Golang, C++, Rust, or a similar programming language.
• Practical familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks, cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and observability tools.
• Ability to work autonomously, define scope amid ambiguity, iterate quickly, and communicate effectively across teams.
• Applicants must be located in Spain, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, or Germany.

Nice to have

• Experience building distributed query engines.
• Experience building data warehouses, data lakes, or data engineering tools.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work with asynchronous collaboration and regular video meetings.
• Autonomous, transparent, and collaborative environment with open-source roots.
• Equity, bonus where applicable, and country-specific benefits.
• In-person onboarding for new employees.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days, including three Grafana Shutdown Days.
• Defined career growth opportunities and an emphasis on work-life balance.