Staff Backend Engineer - Second Horizon | US | Remote at Grafana Labs
$174,986–$209,983from the description
Jul 13, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level backend engineering role focused on building the foundational services for a new AI-native data intelligence system — an internal "context layer" that gives AI agents governed access to enterprise data, metadata, and institutional knowledge. Day-to-day work spans designing and shipping services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval APIs, and multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure, with an expectation of operating what gets built using observability tooling. Suits an experienced backend engineer comfortable with GenAI/LLM technologies and early-stage, ambiguous product work.
Staff level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 6,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,150–10,300
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting lists no overall years-of-experience requirement; seniority is inferred from the explicit 'Staff-level Backend Engineer' title and the described scope (cross-team architectural ownership, early-stage product direction).
Cloud-native environment experience (AWS/GCP/Azure) is listed under Requirements with an 'e.g.' qualifier — treated as a hard gate on cloud-native experience, with the named platforms captured as alternatives.
'Observability tools' is listed as a hard requirement but names no specific product; Grafana itself appears only in company/stack narrative, so it is captured separately as preferred.
Agent frameworks / multi-agent workflows, data platform tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Snowflake, Databricks), and data engineering experience all appear under the explicit 'Nice to have' section.
The compensation range ($174,986–$209,983/year) is stated as US-specific; the posting notes that candidates from Canada are also eligible, with country-specific ranges discussed separately by the recruiter.
Quebec residents are explicitly excluded from eligibility per the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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