Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting

📍 Germany
EUR 97,000-116,400 per year
SENIOR
✅ Remote

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences

Go @ 3 Grafana @ 4 Prometheus @ 4 Python @ 3 Java @ 3 GitHub @ 4 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 used by millions. The Grafana Alerting squad works at the core of the Grafana open-source project (https://github.com/grafana/grafana) and focuses on letting users manage alerts at-scale for both Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts. This role is remote and Grafana is particularly interested in applications from Germany.

Responsibilities

  • Influence the roadmap and set your own career objectives within the Alerting squad
  • Deliver new features, iterate based on results and customer feedback
  • Drive projects from ideation to production and operations
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical backend systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability
  • Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of services in production
  • Mentor and support other team members; participate in design discussions and collaboration
  • Embrace open-source culture and contribute to projects beyond your immediate team
  • Learn the codebase of a large distributed system and gain deeper understanding of the cloud product and customers

Requirements

  • Solid experience with at least one programming language; Grafana primarily uses Go (familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar is also valued)
  • Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience in systems engineering
  • Experience designing and building distributed systems (examples in the team include scaling alert ingestion, evaluation, and delivery)
  • Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software
  • Experience delivering projects end-to-end: gathering requirements, brainstorming, shipping, and iterating
  • Comfortable working in a remote-first engineering organization; strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and take operational ownership

Compensation & Rewards

  • Germany compensation range: EUR 97,034 - EUR 116,441 per year
  • All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • Compensation ranges are country-specific; recruiters will discuss local pay ranges if applying from a different location

Why You'll Thrive / Benefits

  • 100% remote, global culture with a distributed team
  • Opportunity to work on meaningful problems in a scaling organization
  • Transparent communication and approachable leadership
  • Strong open-source roots and community-driven values
  • In-person onboarding to support new hires
  • Global annual leave policy: 30 days per annum (with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days); local legislation will be complied with where applicable

Other Notes

  • Grafana Labs may use AI tools in recruitment to assist in matching CVs to job postings; the recruitment team will manually review inbound CVs
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