Grafana Labs
Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases | Canada | Remote
Canada (Remote) +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- Canada (Remote)
USA (Remote)
About the job
Designs, builds, operates, and improves Mimir’s distributed metrics-query systems for Grafana Cloud and open-source users, with responsibility for reliability, performance, and availability.
What you'll do
- Deliver features and projects from initial design through production operations; iterate based on results.
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, and contribute to code reviews and design discussions.
- Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of services in production.
What they ask for
- Solid experience with at least one programming language; Go is used, and familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar also translates well.
- Experience leading and delivering projects from requirements gathering through customer release, independently and collaboratively.
- Experience developing cloud software or systems engineering; experience being on-call and following the DevOps model.
- Experience writing maintainable, robust, performant software; familiarity with observability systems and comfort with microservices and distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes, queue systems such as the Kafka protocol, or infrastructure as code.
- Experience using Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles.
Pay
CAD 186,368 - CAD 223,642 base salary
Tools
Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, Kubernetes, Kafka, Prometheus
AI focus
Uses AI coding assistants and LLMs such as Claude and Codex in daily development; encouraged uses include prototyping, test generation, refactoring, documentation, and incident follow-ups. The company also states that it may use AI tools to help match CV information to job postings, with manual recruiter review.
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