Staff AI Engineer | US | Remote
Grafana LabsUnited States (Remote) · Remote · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal
$154,445 – $185,334
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What this role is
This role builds AI agent infrastructure and automation systems for Grafana's marketing operations, owning multi-agent architectures and backend services that connect LLMs to business platforms. It suits senior engineers with production LLM experience who thrive designing end-to-end systems with minimal direction and want to solve high-leverage automation problems across revenue-generating teams.
Our summary, not Grafana Labs’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- CrewAI
- Cursor AI
- Git
- GitHub Copilot
- Google BigQuery
- Google Cloud Platform
- JavaScript
- LangChain
- n8n
- Node.js
- Prompt Engineering
- Python
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with depth in backend development, systems integration, or data/analytics engineering
- 2+ years hands-on experience applying LLMs/AI to production workflows
- Strong proficiency in Python and JavaScript/Node.js with Git-based workflows and testing discipline
- Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks and patterns including prompt engineering, RAG, function calling, structured output parsing, and evaluation
- Experience building and operating multi-agent systems at scale including orchestration patterns and state management
- Deep familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, and serverless/containerized services
- Understanding of LLM failure modes and production mitigations
- Proven ability to identify high-leverage problems and deliver end-to-end with minimal direction
- Fluent with AI-assisted development tools
- Clear technical communicator
Nice to have
- Experience with vector databases or retrieval pipelines
- Familiarity with marketing or sales platforms like Salesforce, HubSpot, or Marketo
- Experience with frontend frameworks like React or Slack Block Kit
- Observability tooling for AI systems like LangSmith or Weights & Biases
- Experience with workflow orchestration platforms like Temporal, Prefect, or Airflow
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol
- Prior work automating marketing, sales, or customer success workflows in B2B SaaS
- Active in open-source communities