Backend Engineer - Platform - Stacks

📍 Germany
📍 Spain
📍 United Kingdom
📍 Ireland
📍 Sweden

SEK 610,000-762,500 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

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AWS @ 2 Azure @ 2 Debugging Distributed Systems @ 2 GCP @ 2 Go Grafana Helm @ 2 Kubernetes @ 2 Node.js @ 3 Terraform @ 2 TypeScript @ 3

Details

Responsibilities

Application Core Services (AppCore) is a group within Platform, in the Foundations department. Foundations produces the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) and partners closely with our Cloud, Enterprise, and Grafana teams. Our team develops the essential systems driving Grafana's business operations. We utilize the grafana.com platform to engineer bespoke integrations and solutions that unify the diverse technical ecosystem of a modern software enterprise.

The AppCore Stacks squad owns the systems that create, configure, reconcile, migrate, and operate Grafana Cloud stacks at scale. A stack is the customer-facing Grafana Cloud environment that connects an organization to Grafana and the backend services it uses, including Mimir, Loki, Tempo, plugins, dashboards, data sources, and stack-level configuration.

Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems, including the SSS backend, to track desired stack state, detect and repair drift across stack templates, grafana.com state, Hosted Grafana, and actual customer stack configuration
Collaborate across SSS, grafana.com, and deployment configurations to ensure stack lifecycle workflows remain reliable, observable, and resilient
Improve operational efficiency by reducing deployment complexity (e.g., aiming for single PR regional SSS deployment) and contributing to the Stack Config Reconciliation project
Manage rollout mechanisms for provisioned plugins, dashboards, data sources, Grafana versions, release channels, and stack-level configuration
Support new region and cluster rollouts, including the operational paths required to bring stacks online safely in new Grafana Cloud regions
Improve incident response and recovery paths for stack misalignment, reconciliation failures, plugin rollout issues, and Hosted Grafana integration failures
Partner with Product, Hosted Grafana, Infrastructure, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads on customer-impacting stack lifecycle work
Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, OnCall improvements, and long-term simplification of stack operations
You will help own the production behavior of the systems you build. That includes improving runbooks, dashboards, alerts, reconciliation safety, rollout controls, and recovery procedures. You should be comfortable debugging across service boundaries and making careful changes in systems that affect customer stacks

Requirements

You have at least 1 year of fully remote work experience
You have some experience working on a SaaS platform and are familiar with common distributed systems concepts (e.g., scalability, multi-tenancy, HA)
Have professional experience with Golang and be willing to work across both backend service and application code
Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on
Have some experience contributing to the delivery of projects, from initial brainstorming to shipping a product to the customer
You write clean, well-tested software that other engineers can understand, operate, and maintain
Can take on well-defined tasks, break them down, and execute iteratively to deliver working solutions and gather feedback
You are willing to collaborate across teams and ensure your work is aligned with the needs of other squads and external stakeholders
Familiarity with Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and exposure to infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.)
Experience participating in blameless incident response and contributing to post-incident reviews

Bonus Points For

Experience with TypeScript/Node.js
Experience with Kubernetes control-plane patterns, operators, reconcilers, or desired-state systems
Experience with Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform, Flux, Argo, or similar deployment/configuration tooling
Experience working on SaaS provisioning, tenancy, regional expansion, plugin rollout, or customer lifecycle systems
Experience with incident response involving configuration drift, partial failure, or cross-service state mismatch

Benefits

In Sweden, the compensation range for this role is SEK 609,985 - SEK 762,481. 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.

100% Remote, Global Culture
Scaling Organization
Transparent Communication
Innovation-Driven
Open Source Roots
Empowered Teams
Career Growth Pathways
Approachable Leadership
Passionate People
In-Person onboarding
Balance is Key: global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days