Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | UK | Remote

United Kingdom (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.

The Opportunity 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. Over the next year, you will help us:

• Ship Adaptive Profiles as the default ingestion strategy, so customers automatically collect the profiles they need at a cost that makes sense.
• 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.
• Prepare Pyroscope for an agent-driven world: 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.
• Double adoption by making profiling easy to start with: guided onboarding, use-case-driven docs, and assisted instrumentation so users get value in minutes instead of days.

What You'll Be Doing As a Senior Engineer on Pyroscope, you will own meaningful projects end to end and help shape what the team builds next. You will lead projects from concept to rollout, design, build, and operate core components of a distributed database, and drive operational excellence. You will also partner across Grafana, support your teammates, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to open source.

What Makes You a Great Fit Solid experience with a systems language, distributed systems in production, product sense, curiosity and courage, strong software craftsmanship, operational mindset, pragmatism, and clear communication.

Bonus Points For Experience with profiling and performance engineering, OpenTelemetry or large-scale observability systems, operating multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure at scale on Kubernetes, building for AI/LLM consumers, open-source contribution, and experience as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Pyroscope, or similar.

How we work We are a remote-first team that values creativity, diverse perspectives, and clear communication. We expect everyone on the team to contribute ideas that make it a more reliable, more useful, and more loved product.

In UK, the compensation range for this role is £91,755 - £110,106. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success.

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.