Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting

GBP 104,000-124,800 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 is the company behind the open observability cloud. Grafana Cloud is a fully managed observability platform built for scale. The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project and its mission is to provide comprehensive alert management for users, both on-premises and in Cloud. The team focuses on building distributed systems to ingest, evaluate, and deliver alerts at scale and works closely with customers and Grafana Cloud teams.

Responsibilities

  • Influence roadmap and define career objectives related to Alerting
  • Deliver new features with iterative improvements based on results
  • Drive projects from ideation through to operations and customer delivery
  • Contribute to and embrace open-source culture, including contributions beyond the 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 running services
  • Mentor and support other team members; take part in design discussions and team collaboration
  • Learn and gain deeper understanding of the cloud product and large distributed system codebases

Projects referenced as examples of work:

  • Building distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts
  • Unifying alert setup and delivery for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts
  • Scaling alert evaluation for Grafana-managed alerts (e.g., >500 evaluations/sec in production)

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
  • Pragmatic approach: break down complex challenges, deliver MVPs, gather data and iterate
  • Solid experience with at least one programming language. Grafana uses Go; familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar is transferable
  • Experience delivering projects end-to-end (requirements, design, shipping to customers) in a self-driven manner
  • Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience in systems engineering
  • Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software

Compensation & Rewards

  • UK compensation range: GBP 103,958 - GBP 124,750 (country-specific; actual compensation may vary by level, experience, and skillset)
  • All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs

  • 100% remote, global culture with a collaborative environment
  • Opportunity to tackle meaningful work in a scaling organization
  • Transparent communication and approachable leadership
  • Innovation-driven, open-source roots, empowered teams, and career growth pathways
  • In-person onboarding; global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum (with 3 Grafana Shutdown Days)

Other Notes

  • The role is remote and Grafana is interested in applications from the UK for this listing
  • Grafana Labs is an equal opportunity employer
  • Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process; recruitment team will manually review CVs