# Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases | USA | Remote at Grafana

- Company: Grafana
- What the company does: Avoid lock-in and ensure reliability with Grafana Cloud. The AI-powered platform built on open standards unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and Sapphire.
- Company website: https://grafana.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States (Remote)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/6146604004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/grafana-staff-backend-engineer-mimir-query-databases-usa-remote/

## About the role

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

## What they're looking for

- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
- Drive projects from initial idea all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
- Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
- Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running

Tags: R&D : Databases