Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting

📍 Spain
EUR 94,000-112,800 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, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud is a fully managed observability platform built for scale with AI capabilities. The company is 100% remote with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries.

The Opportunity

The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project and its mission is to provide users with deep alert management. The backend-focused team works closely with customers and Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-premises and at infinite scale in Cloud. Example projects include:

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

This is a remote opportunity and the team is interested in applications from Spain.

Responsibilities

  • Influence the roadmap and define your own career objectives
  • Work with the team to deliver new features and iterate based on results
  • Drive projects from ideation through to production and ongoing operations
  • Embrace and contribute to open-source projects beyond the team scope
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability
  • Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of services in production
  • Mentor and support other team members and participate in design discussions
  • Learn and deepen understanding of Grafana Cloud, customers, and a large distributed codebase

Requirements

  • Motivated self-starter with a bias toward action and strong communication skills for a remote-first environment
  • Customer-focused with a passion for creating intuitive products that meet customer needs
  • Pragmatic approach: break complex challenges down, deliver MVPs, gather feedback, and iterate
  • 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, from requirements to shipping to customers
  • Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
  • Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software

Compensation & Rewards

  • Spain compensation range: EUR 94,025 - EUR 112,830
  • All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs

  • 100% remote, global culture with transparent communication and approachable leadership
  • Scaling organization with opportunities for meaningful work and career growth
  • Open source roots and empowered teams with autonomy and high trust
  • In-person onboarding and a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum (3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days)

Equal Opportunity

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from everyone. The company may utilize AI tools in recruitment to assist matching CVs to job postings.