<div class="content-intro"><p><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/grafana-labs">Grafana Labs</a>, 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 <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/grafana-labs">Grafana Labs</a> 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, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at <u><a href="http://grafana.com" rel="nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">grafana.com</a></u> and follow us on <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/" rel="nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></u> and <u><a href="https://twitter.com/grafana" rel="nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">X</a></u>.</p><p>We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.</p><p>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.</p></div><h3><strong>Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases</strong></h3><h3><strong>This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the USA time zones.</strong></h3><h3>What is Grafana Cloud?</h3><p>Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.</p><p>The Databases department owns and operates the telemetry databases that are<a href="https://github.com/grafana/mimir" rel="nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Mimir for metrics</a>,<a href="https://github.com/grafana/loki" rel="nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Loki for logs</a>,<a href="https://github.com/grafana/tempo" rel="nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Tempo for traces</a>, and<a href="https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope" rel="nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer"