Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | US | Remote

3 months, 3 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Grafana

Grafana

Grafana is the open observability platform providing analytics, monitoring, and visualization solutions with a focus on user control and cost efficiency.

IT Services
1K-5K
Founded 2014
$535M raised

Description

  • Design and lead the development of backend services, distributed systems, and enterprise features at scale.
  • Drive projects from initial ideation through development and production release.
  • Improve the scalability, reliability, security, and multi-tenancy of the Grafana platform.
  • Own operational health by participating in weekday and weekend on-call rotations.
  • Architect and implement distributed backend services in Go with a focus on correctness, observability, and performance.
  • Design APIs and service contracts used by enterprise operators and cloud service providers.
  • Collaborate with Product, UX, and frontend engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
  • Engage directly with enterprise customers and cloud service providers to translate requirements into engineering solutions.
  • Hire and develop engineers to help build the future of Grafana.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering culture and operational practices.

Requirements

  • Deep professional experience writing production services from ideation through production operations at scale.
  • Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including replication, consistency models, partitioning, and fault tolerance.
  • Experience designing and operating systems for large-scale, high-traffic, high-availability, or multi-tenant environments.
  • Professional experience building and consuming gRPC/protobuf APIs and clean service contracts.
  • Strong database skills with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL, including schema design, query optimization, and schema migrations at scale.
  • Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems and build tooling.
  • Comfort working with Kubernetes and containerized deployment environments.
  • Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing.
  • Familiarity with dependency injection patterns such as Google Wire and testable service architecture.
  • Experience with TypeScript and React is a nice to have.
  • Experience with Grafana's LGTM+ observability stack, including Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope, and Alloy, is a nice to have.
  • Prior experience with large-scale cloud service providers, IaaS providers, or global enterprises with demanding SLA requirements is a nice to have.
  • Experience with large-scale build infrastructure, artifact registries, distributed build caches, hermetic build systems such as Bazel, or developer platform tooling is a nice to have.
  • Candidates must be based in the US or Canada for this remote role.

Benefits

  • Remote-first, fully remote global work environment.
  • United States compensation range of $174,986 to $209,983 USD.
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for all team members.
  • 30 days of annual leave per year.
  • 3 days of annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • In-person onboarding to help new hires ramp up.
  • Access to modern AI coding assistants with a company-funded usage budget.
  • Access to frontier models such as GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3 Pro.

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