Staff Backend Engineer (Databases)

TL;DR

Staff Backend Engineer (Databases): Building and optimizing high-load backend services for Pyroscope, an open-source continuous profiling database, with an accent on rapid, scalable, reliable, and efficient storage and querying capabilities. Focus on implementing distributed systems for profile ingestion and queries, and correlating profiling data with metrics, logs, and traces for application observability.

Location: Remote (US and Canada)

Salary: $186,368 - $223,642 CAD

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first, open-source company focused on observability, providing tools like Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope to help over 3,000 companies manage their monitoring strategies.

What you will do

• Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements.
• Lead projects from concept to implementation, including ongoing customer support.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain essential systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee.
• Support and mentor team members, engaging in design conversations.

Requirements

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently in a fully remote setup.
• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar).
• Experience delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product.
• Strong experience designing and developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering.
• Solid experience with distributed systems and Kubernetes.
• Experience with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code.

Nice to have

• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles.
• Exposure to microservices architecture.
• Databases backend experience.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote, global culture united by collaboration and shared purpose.
• High-growth, innovation-driven environment with transparent communication.
• Open Source roots and community-driven values.
• Empowered teams with a high trust, low ego culture.
• 30 days annual leave, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
• Access to modern AI coding assistants with a company-funded usage budget for faster development.