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.

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Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is versátil 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 global 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 opportunity, and we would be interested in applicants located in Spain, Sweden, UK, Ireland or Germany.

At Grafana

Labs, we build observability tools that help users understand, respond to, and improve their systems – regardless of scale, complexity, or tech stack. Our goal is to make Grafana the single best place where humans and AI agents understand and act on real-time data from across the enterprise. As part of this initiative, we are building an AI-native data intelligence system that gives agents reliable, governed access to enterprise context.

This system helps agents retrieve the right data, metadata, definitions, lineage, quality signals, and institutional knowledge without every agent builder having to maintain their own brittle context files.

The principle is simple: the context system retrieves, agents decide, and data teams maintain the intelligence.



We're looking for a Staff-level Backend Engineer to help build the first production services for this context layer management system. You will design and ship the core backend architecture that powers ingestion, context storage, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations.

This is an early-stage role on a high-autonomy team, so you should be comfortable working through ambiguity, making pragmatic architectural decisions, and building systems that can evolve from internal dogfooding to production-grade SaaS.

Build the core backend services: Design, implement, test, and operate the first services for context ingestion, context indexing, retrieval orchestration, API access, source configuration, and system administration. Partner with the team to make practical tradeoffs between fast experimentation and long-term reliability, especially as the project moves from prototype to production. Help shape the architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices for a new product area.

Solid experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems. You're a self-starter, capable of tackling complex engineering problems and making UI design decisions with minimal supervision. You're familiar with AI technologies and frameworks, and you focus on delivering high‐quality solutions that work in the real world, not just in theory.

You take ownership and drive projects forward, pushing boundaries to find the most impactful solutions. Proven track record of delivering software that made it into production and is actively used by users. Exposure to working in cloud‐native environments (e.AWS, GCP, Azure).





Experience as a data analyst or work with data platforms (e.Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, DataBricks) Experience building tools for data engineering. 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.

Tempo is relied upon by prominent global organizations to monitor critical applications and infrastructure, and we expect everyone on the team, including our Staff engineers, 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, Global 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 global 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.

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