Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform

Details

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help scale Grafana Cloud and evolve Grafana's core architecture into a fully multi-tenant, scalable platform for open-source and proprietary Cloud apps.

The role focuses on refactoring and standardizing Grafana while safely rolling out changes across a large OSS and Cloud user base without service disruptions. The successful candidate will have experience with SaaS platforms at scale and distributed systems.

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 align work with other squads and external stakeholders.
• Own the customer experience by participating in weekday 12-hour-by-5-day and separate weekend 24-hour-by-2-day on-call rotations.
• Use modern AI coding assistants for prototyping, test generation, refactoring, documentation, and incident follow-ups, subject to security guidelines and code quality standards.

Requirements

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

Compensation

The compensation range in Canada is $186,368–$223,642 CAD. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset. The role includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Benefits

• 100% remote, global work culture.
• In-person onboarding.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
• Career growth pathways.
• Company-funded usage budget for AI coding assistants.

Equal Opportunity

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from everyone regardless of characteristics protected by local law.