Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting

at Grafana Labs

📍 Ireland

EUR 117,600-141,100 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 closely with customers and Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-premises and at infinite scale in the cloud. Recent projects include building distributed systems for Prometheus-based alert ingestion and delivery, unifying alerting setup and delivery across 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 use results to iterate and improve.
Drive projects from initial ideation through operations after delivery to customers.
Contribute to open-source projects beyond the direct scope of the team.
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning their reliability, performance, and availability.
Participate in the team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you run.
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.
Work effectively in a remote-first engineering organization using regular video meetings.

Requirements

Motivated self-starter with a bias toward action.
Customer-focused and passionate about creating intuitive products that meet customer needs.
Pragmatic approach to complex challenges, including analyzing, designing, and building modular solutions, delivering MVPs, gathering feedback, and progressing iteratively.
Strong collaboration and communication skills in a fully remote team 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 brainstorming through shipping products to customers in a self-driven way.
Experience developing software that runs in the cloud or experience with systems engineering.
Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software.

Benefits

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
100% remote, global culture.
Career growth pathways.
In-person onboarding.
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
Open-source, transparent, innovation-driven, and empowered team culture.

Compensation

The compensation range in Ireland is EUR 117,600–141,120. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset. Compensation ranges are country-specific, and the recruiter will discuss the applicable range and benefits if applying from another location.