Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Germany | Remote

<div class="content-intro"><p>Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at <u><span><a href="http://grafana.com" target="_blank">grafana.com</a></span></u> and follow us on <u><span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></span></u> and <u><span><a href="https://twitter.com/grafana" target="_blank">X</a></span></u><u>.</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><h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Ireland only. </strong></span></h1> <h2><strong>The Opportunity</strong></h2> <p>We build <strong>Pyroscope</strong>, 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.</p> <p>2026 is an inflection point for Pyroscope. 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.</p> <p>Over the next year, you will help us:</p> <ul> <li>Ship Adaptive Profiles as the default ingestion strategy, so customers automatically collect the profiles they need at a cost that makes sense.</li> <li>Turn Pyroscope into a platform capability inside Grafana: bi-directional trace-to-profile correlation, integration with Kubernetes Monitoring and App Observability, and profiles surfaced where engineers already start their investigations.</li> <li>Prepare Pyroscope for an agent-driven world: APIs, CLI, and docs designed so AI agents can drive profiling end to end, covering the full performance optimization lifecycle from finding an issue to verifying the fix.</li> <li>Push operational excellence and TCO further: generalized autoscaling, better UX for long queries, and BYOC automation that brings up…