Senior Backend Engineer - Grafana Search & Storage

📍 Germany
📍 Spain
📍 United Kingdom
📍 Ireland
📍 Sweden
EUR 104,000-130,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ Remote

Used Tools & Technologies

IaC

Required Skills & Competences

Go @ 4 Grafana @ 4 Prometheus @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 4 Leadership @ 4 Communication @ 7 SRE @ 3 AI @ 4

Details

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with more than 20M users of Grafana. The Grafana Search & Storage squad is developing Grafana’s next-generation storage layer and manages Search and Folders for discovery and organization.

Responsibilities

  • Influence the roadmap and set career objectives
  • Work with your team to deliver new features and iterate based on results
  • Drive projects from ideation through to operations in customers' hands
  • Contribute to open-source projects beyond your team's immediate scope
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability
  • Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of services you run
  • Mentor and support team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team
  • Learn the codebase of a large distributed system and gain deeper understanding of the cloud product and customers
  • Communicate effectively in a remote-first engineering organization

Requirements

  • Motivated self-starter with a bias towards action and customer focus
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills for fully remote teamwork
  • Solid experience with the Go programming language
  • Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with large distributed systems
  • Experience delivering projects end-to-end (requirements through shipping to customers)
  • Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
  • Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Bonus Points For

  • Experience using Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call)
  • Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks
  • Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code

Compensation & Rewards

  • In Ireland, the base compensation range for this role is €104,000 - €130,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed on the company careers page.
  • Compensation ranges are country specific; recruiters will discuss market-specific pay ranges for applicants in other locations.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs

  • 100% remote, global culture; remote-only company
  • Opportunity to work in a scaling organization on meaningful work
  • Transparent communication and approachable leadership
  • Innovation-driven, open-source roots, empowered teams, and career growth pathways
  • In-person onboarding and a global annual leave policy (30 days per annum, with 3 days reserved for company shutdown days)

Other

  • This role is available for candidates located in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Ireland, and Sweden.
  • Grafana Labs is an equal opportunity employer and may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process. For privacy details, see the company applicant privacy policy.