# Senior Backend Engineer - Analytics | Canada | Remote

**Company**: Grafana Labs
**Location**: Canada (Remote)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: CAD $164,490 - $197,389
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help build the first production services for a context layer management system. The ideal candidate will design and ship the core backend architecture that powers ingestion, context storage, retrieval APIs, and agent-facing integrations.

Key responsibilities:

- Build the core backend services: Design, implement, test, and operate the first services for context ingestion, context indexing, retrieval orchestration, API access, source configuration, and system administration.

- Create a scalable SaaS foundation: Help define and build the architecture for a multi-tenant service, including tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries.

- Power agent-facing retrieval workflows: Build APIs and service interfaces that allow AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve relevant context, provenance, confidence signals, and warnings.

- Work across product and infrastructure: Partner with the team to make practical tradeoffs between fast experimentation and long-term reliability, especially as the project moves from prototype to production.

- Operate what you build: Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards. Use observability tools to understand system behavior and improve reliability.

- Contribute to technical direction: Help shape the architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices for a new product area.

- Effective communication: You’ll be working in a highly dynamic and collaborative environment, so we need someone who can communicate effectively and contribute across teams.

- Ownership and impact: Take full ownership of the AI solutions you develop, ensuring they are not only innovative but also scalable, maintainable, and aligned with real user workflows.

Requirements:

- Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and building applications powered by GenAI.

- Proven track record of delivering software that made it into production and is actively used by users.

- Exposure to working in cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).

- Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior.

Nice to have:

- Experience building or working with agent frameworks or multi‑agent workflows.

- Experience as a data analyst or work with data platforms (e.g., Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, DataBricks).

- Experience building tools for data engineering.

In Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD $164,490 - $197,389. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- LLMs
- prompt engineering
- GenAI
- cloud-native environments
- observability tools

### Nice to have
- agent frameworks
- multi‑agent workflows
- data analysis
- data platforms
- data engineering

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