Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform

at Grafana Labs

📍 Germany
📍 Spain
📍 United Kingdom
📍 Ireland
📍 Sweden

EUR 94,000-112,800 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

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AI Communication @ 6 Distributed Systems @ 4 Go Grafana OSS Observability Security

Details

Grafana Labs is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to help scale Grafana Cloud and evolve Grafana into a fully multi-tenant, scalable observability app platform. The role focuses on refactoring Grafana's core architecture, enabling OSS and proprietary applications to integrate with dashboards, alerts, incidents, and telemetry, and safely rolling out changes without service disruptions.

Responsibilities

Code new features, enhance the operational experience of developed systems, and iteratively improve them based on production insights.
Author, contribute to, and review design documents.
Take an active role in shaping the roadmap.
Mentor and support other team members.
Collaborate with teams across the organization and external stakeholders.
Own the customer experience by participating in weekday 12-hour x 5-day and separate weekend 24-hour x 2-day on-call rotations.
Use AI coding assistants for prototyping, test generation, refactoring, documentation, and incident follow-ups, subject to security guidelines, code review, and quality standards.

Requirements

Strong coding skills and operational experience, including responsibility for operating software you have built.
Experience working on SaaS platforms at scale.
Experience with distributed systems problems such as scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, and high availability.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work across teams, align plans with other squads and external stakeholders, communicate plans transparently, and incorporate feedback.
A pragmatic approach, with the ability to prioritize progress over perfection and handle ambiguity.
Familiarity with Golang or willingness to learn it.

Benefits

100% remote global work environment.
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) included with all roles.
Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants.
Career growth pathways.
30 days of annual leave per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
In-person onboarding.