Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics | Sweden | Remote

Location: Remote; applicants must be located in Spain, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, or Germany

Salary: SEK 775,000–969,000 base compensation per year in Sweden

Company

hirify.global builds Grafana Cloud, an open-source observability platform used by organizations to monitor systems, resolve incidents, and manage telemetry.

What you will do

• Design, implement, test, and operate database components including ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, and storage formats.
• Build 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 data efficiently.
• Partner across product and infrastructure to move the platform from prototype to production.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards 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 making independent design decisions.
• Experience with distributed systems, catalogs and table formats, and query engines.
• Mastery of a programming language such as Go, C++, or Rust.
• Experience delivering software used by customers and working in cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Familiarity with AI technologies and observability tools for troubleshooting system behavior.
• Strong communication, ownership, experimentation, and ambiguity-management skills.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, asynchronous work with regular video meetings and written collaboration.
• Autonomy, transparent communication, and a high-trust environment.
• Open-source culture with opportunities to work on an early-stage, high-impact product area.
• Equity, bonus where applicable, and country-specific benefits.
• In-person onboarding and a global annual leave policy of 30 days, including three Grafana shutdown days.