Spain (Remote)
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.Learn more at grafana.We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a integral collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
This is a remote position. We build Pyroscope , the open-source continuous profiling database behind Grafana Cloud Profiles. Pyroscope gives engineers code-level visibility into how their applications use CPU and memory, down to the specific line of code, and connects that signal with metrics, logs, and traces across the Grafana stack.
The product is moving beyond profiling-savvy users, and our focus is shifting from standalone feature development to reducing friction across the full experience: better onboarding, deeper integration with the rest of Grafana, and profiles that work for operational and SRE workflows, not just performance specialists.
Turn Pyroscope into a platform capability inside Grafana: bi-directional trace-to-profile correlation, integration with Kubernetes Monitoring and App Observability, and profiles surfaced where engineers already start their investigations.
APIs, CLI, and docs designed so AI agents can drive profiling end to end, covering the full performance optimization lifecycle from finding an issue to verifying the fix.
Push operational excellence and TCO further: generalized autoscaling, better UX for long queries,



and BYOC automation that brings up a new cell with zero manual intervention.
As a Senior Engineer on Pyroscope, you will own meaningful projects end to end and help shape what the team builds next.
Lead projects from concept to rollout , e.g. Design, build, and operate core components of a distributed database: ingestion, storage, and query, making sharp trade-offs on performance, cost, and complexity.
Partner across Grafana. Work closely with App Observability, Alloy, Tempo, and the other Databases squads to make profiles useful wherever engineers work.
Support your teammates through design conversations, code review, and pairing in a fully remote setup.
You will engage the community, review external contributions, and help steer the project in the open.
You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction.
We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups, always paired with strong code review and quality standards. These are the kinds of projects landing this year:
Traces and profiles together: bi-directional correlation between traces and profiles, so a slow request links straight to the code that burned the CPU.
Agent-ready Pyroscope: structured, deterministic APIs and a CLI that AI assistants can drive reliably, plus the benchmarks to prove tool quality and catch regressions.
OTel-native profiling: evolve ingestion, storage, and query as OpenTelemetry profiling matures, keeping Pyroscope the natural backend for OTel profiles.
Rust, C, C++, Python, Java, etc).
You have built and operated cloud services and understand what it takes to keep a multi-tenant data system fast, reliable, and affordable.
Strong software craftsmanship. You write clean, robust, performant software that others can maintain,



and you know when to optimize versus when to ship.
You work well in a fully remote, asynchronous environment and lead through writing, reviews, and shipped code.
Experience with profiling and performance engineering: flamegraphs, pprof, perf, or similar tooling.
Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure at scale on Kubernetes.
Experience as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Pyroscope, or similar in a previous role (or on a homelab).
Experience in a fully remote, globally distributed team.
We are a remote-first team that meets regularly over video and does most of our work asynchronously, in writing. We value creativity, diverse perspectives, and clear communication. Pyroscope is relied upon by prominent global organizations to optimize critical applications and infrastructure, and we expect everyone on the team to contribute ideas that make it a more reliable, more useful, and more loved product.
All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
~100% Remote, General Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
~ In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
~ Balance is Key - We operate a general annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.*

Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our privacy policy .
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📌 Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Spain | Remote New Spain (Remote) (España)
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