Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting

at Grafana Labs

📍 Spain

EUR 94,000-112,800 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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Communication @ 7 Distributed Systems Go @ 3 Grafana @ 4 Java @ 3 Prometheus Python @ 3 Rust @ 3

Details

Grafana Alerting operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project. The backend-focused team works with customers and Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting operate on-premises and at large scale in the cloud.

Recent projects include building distributed systems to scale Prometheus-based alert ingestion and delivery, unifying alerting setup and delivery for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts, and scaling evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts to more than 500 evaluations per second in production.

Responsibilities

Influence the product roadmap and personal career objectives.
Work with the team to deliver new features, then iterate and improve based on results.
Drive projects from initial ideation through operations after delivery to customers.
Contribute to open-source projects, including projects outside the team’s direct scope.
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning their reliability, performance, and availability.
Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of operated services.
Mentor and support team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team.
Develop a deeper understanding of Grafana Cloud, customers, and the codebase of a large distributed system.

Requirements

Motivation, self-direction, and a bias toward action.
A customer-focused approach and passion for creating intuitive products that meet customer needs.
Pragmatism, including the ability to break complex challenges into modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather feedback, and iterate.
Strong communication and collaboration skills for working in a fully remote environment.
Solid experience with at least one programming language. Grafana uses Go; familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar languages is also relevant.
Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering and ideation through shipping to customers in a self-driven manner.
Experience developing software that runs in the cloud or experience with systems engineering.
Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software.
An independent attitude and effective communication skills for remote-first work.

Benefits

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
100% remote, global culture.
Career growth pathways.
In-person onboarding.
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, with three days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.