Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting

Details

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries. Grafana Cloud is a fully managed observability platform built for scale. The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project and its mission is to provide a comprehensive way for users to manage alerts, both on-prem and at cloud scale.

Responsibilities

• Influence the squad roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Work with your team to deliver new features, iterate based on results, and drive projects from ideation through to operations in customers' hands.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability.
• Participate in your team’s on-call rotation and take ownership of the services you run.
• Embrace open-source culture and contribute to projects beyond your immediate scope.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate closely with teammates in a remote-first environment.
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of the cloud product, customers, and a large distributed codebase.

Examples of recent projects in the Alerting domain:

• Building distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts.
• Unifying Alerting setup and delivery for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts.
• Building distributed systems to scale alert evaluation, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Solid experience with at least one programming language. Grafana uses Go; familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar translates well.
• Experience delivering projects end-to-end: gathering requirements, brainstorming, shipping, and iterating in a self-driven way.
• Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud OR experience with systems engineering.
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is maintainable by others.
• Comfortable working remotely with strong communication skills and an independent, proactive attitude.
• Customer-focused mindset and pragmatism: able to break down complex challenges and iterate with short feedback loops.

Compensation & Rewards

• Spain compensation range for this role: EUR 82,988 - EUR 99,586 (annual). Actual compensation may vary by level, experience, and skillset.
• All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs

• 100% remote, global culture with collaborative, open, and transparent decision-making.
• Scaling organization with meaningful work and opportunities for career growth.
• Innovation-driven environment with autonomy and support to ship work and experiment.
• Open-source roots and empowered teams operating with high trust and low ego.
• In-person onboarding to help new hires integrate and learn from peers.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum (with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days), subject to local legislation.

Equal Opportunity & Recruitment

• Grafana Labs is an equal opportunity employer and will recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of protected characteristics.
• The company may utilize AI tools in recruitment to assist matching CVs to job postings; recruitment team manually reviews CVs for alignment.

Location & Work Model

• This is a remote opportunity; applications from Spain are specifically encouraged. The role is remote-first and requires strong remote collaboration skills.

Notes

• The Alerting squad works closely with Grafana Cloud teams and customers to ensure alerting is reliable and scalable for critical systems and infrastructure.