Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting

📍 Sweden
SEK 775,400-930,500 per year
SENIOR
✅ Remote

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences

Go @ 3 Grafana @ 4 Prometheus @ 4 Python @ 3 Java @ 3 Distributed Systems @ 4 Leadership @ 4 Communication @ 7 Rust @ 3 Observability @ 4 AI @ 4

Details

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud and Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform. We are a 100% remote company with a global engineering organization and an open-source-first culture.

Opportunity

The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project and focuses on providing users with comprehensive alert management. The backend-focused team collaborates with customers and Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-premises and at cloud scale. Recent projects include:

  • Building distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts
  • Unifying Alerting setup and delivery across Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts
  • Scaling alert evaluation for Grafana-managed alerts (over 500 evaluations per second in production)

This role is a remote opportunity and Grafana Labs is interested in applications from Sweden.

Responsibilities

  • Influence the squad roadmap and define your career objectives
  • Work with the team to deliver new features and iterate based on results
  • Drive projects from ideation through to customer-facing operations
  • Contribute to open-source projects beyond your immediate team scope
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems with ownership of reliability, performance, and availability
  • Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you run
  • Mentor and support team members and participate in design discussions
  • Learn the codebase of a large distributed system and deepen cloud product knowledge

Requirements

  • Senior-level experience building backend services and distributed systems
  • Solid experience with at least one programming language; Grafana Labs uses Go (familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust is also helpful)
  • Experience delivering projects end-to-end: requirements gathering, design, implementation, deployment, and iteration
  • Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
  • Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is maintainable
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a remote, collaborative team

Compensation & Rewards

  • Sweden compensation range: SEK 775,444 - SEK 930,533 (actual compensation varies by level, experience, and skillset)
  • All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum (subject to local legislation), including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days
  • In-person onboarding to meet colleagues and learn the product and processes

Why You’ll Thrive

  • 100% remote, global culture with transparent communication and empowered teams
  • Opportunities for meaningful work in a scaling organization
  • Open source roots and a high-trust, low-ego culture
  • Defined career growth pathways and approachable leadership

Equal Opportunity & Recruitment Notes

  • Grafana Labs is an equal opportunity employer
  • The company may utilize AI tools in recruitment to match candidate CVs to job postings; inbound CVs are reviewed manually by the recruitment team