Senior Backend Engineer (Grafana Databases)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Grafana Databases): Taking ownership of running systems in production and evolving multi-cloud streaming clusters with related database infrastructure with an accent on diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes. Focus on distributed systems design, Kubernetes, and improving the diagnosability of core streaming and database systems in production.

Location: USA time zones only

Salary: USD 154,445 - USD 185,334

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse providing observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack.

What you will do

• Operating and evolving multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure.
• Diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes.
• Designing safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale.
• Improving observability, automation, and operational ergonomics.
• Partnering closely with database and platform teams to ensure safe scaling, partitioning, consumer fan-out, and query performance.

Requirements

• 6+ years of engineering experience in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems roles.
• Experience operating distributed systems in production (e.g., streaming systems, analytical databases, large-scale storage backends).
• Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems design and large-scale system trade-offs.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go preferred).
• Working knowledge of Linux internals, networking, cloud storage, and performance/scaling behavior.
• Experience participating in blameless incident response and writing high-quality post-incident reviews.
• Clear communicator who can collaborate across teams and work autonomously.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent 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.