Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Canada | Remote
About The Position
We are the creators of Pyroscope, an open-source continuous profiling database that offers rapid, scalable, highly reliable, and efficient storage and querying capabilities. It aids in gaining a comprehensive insight into resource utilization within applications, right down to the specific line of code. The project seamlessly integrates with Grafana, enabling users to correlate profiling data with metrics, logs, and traces, and leverage profiles as a crucial component of application observability. Our dedicated backend development team works closely with clients and the Grafana Cloud teams to deliver profiling solutions for on-premises and cloud environments at scale. In our expansive domain, some of the projects we have undertaken include: Implementing distributed systems to effectively manage profile ingestion and queries. Establishing instrumentation support for various programming languages including Golang, Dotnet, Java, Ruby, eBPF, Python, Node.js, and Rust. Built & Enhanced the functionality of the Pyroscope plugins to provide users with an intuitive interface for exploring and analyzing application profiles. This position focuses on implementing distributed systems to effectively manage profile ingestion and queries. Pryoscope is trusted by leading multinational companies for essential applications and infrastructure. We prioritize innovation and inclusivity, empowering every team member to share ideas that improve our product as a dependable solution.
Requirements
- Motivated self-starter with a bias toward action
- Passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
- Pragmatism: Able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
- Collaboration and communication: Good communication skills are a must
- Solid experience with at least one programming language. Go is used, but familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar translates well
- Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
- Strong experience with designing and developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.
- Experience with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code
- Solid experience with distributed systems
- Experience working with Kubernetes
Nice To Haves
- Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
- Exposure to microservices architecture
- Databases backend experience
Responsibilities
- 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
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee
- Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues
- Expand your skill set by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 30 days of global annual leave policy
- 3 days of Grafana Shutdown Days
- Modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow with a company-funded usage budget
- Access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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