# Staff Backend Engineer - Second Horizon | US | Remote

Hiring organization: [Grafana Labs](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/grafana-labs)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/975fe095-ef8c-4a88-8c2b-a24b63730c77

Listed on Grafana Labs's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: United States (Remote)
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 174986 – 209983 USD per year

## Summary

This Staff Backend Engineer role involves architecting and building the core services for an AI-native data intelligence system that helps agents access governed enterprise context—designing multi-tenant infrastructure for ingestion, indexing, retrieval, and agent integrations from prototype to production. The role suits experienced backend engineers comfortable with ambiguity and AI technologies who want significant ownership in shaping a new product area at a fast-growing observability company.

_Our summary, not Grafana Labs's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), GenAI (Generative AI), Microsoft Azure, Prompt Engineering

## Required

- Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and building GenAI applications
- Proven track record delivering production software used by real users
- Exposure to cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience using observability tools to troubleshoot systems

## Nice to have

- Experience with agent frameworks or multi-agent workflows
- Data analysis experience or work with data platforms (Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, DataBricks)
- Experience building tools for data engineering

Apply on Grafana Labs's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/6114603004