Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Ireland | Remote

You work well in a fully remote, asynchronous environment and lead through writing, reviews, and shipped code.

Experience with profiling and performance engineering: flamegraphs, pprof, perf, or similar tooling.

Experience with OpenTelemetry or large-scale observability systems.

Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure at scale on Kubernetes.

Experience building for AI/LLM consumers: structured APIs, metadata and discovery endpoints, deterministic outputs.

Open-source contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the open.

, 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.

We completed the rollout of our V2 architecture, cutting production costs by 92% while significantly improving scalability, and grew the number of customers using the product by 64% last year.

The product is moving beyond profiling-savvy users, and our focus is shifting from standalone feature development to reducing friction across the full experience: better onboarding, deeper integration with the rest of Grafana, and profiles that work for operational and SRE workflows, not just performance specialists.

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.

We are a remote-first team that meets regularly over video and does most of our work asynchronously, in writing. We value creativity, diverse perspectives, and clear communication. Pyroscope is relied upon by prominent global organizations to optimize critical applications and infrastructure, and we expect everyone on the team to contribute ideas that make it a more reliable, more useful, and more loved product.

In Ireland, the compensation range for this role is €104,000 - €124,800. 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. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.

*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

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As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.