Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform | UK | Remote

at Grafana Labs

📍 Germany
📍 Spain
📍 United Kingdom
📍 Ireland
📍 Sweden

GBP 104,000-124,800 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Used Tools & Technologies

Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value. About proficiency levels:

1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

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

Details

Grafana Labs is a remote-first open-source company with a large global user base for Grafana and an expanding Cloud / Grafana-as-a-service business. This role focuses on refactoring Grafana's core architecture to be fully multi-tenant and scalable and building an opinionated app platform that enables OSS and proprietary apps to integrate with dashboards, alerts, incidents, and telemetry.

This is a remote position. The team is looking for candidates in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Ireland only.

Responsibilities

Code new features and iteratively improve systems based on production insights.
Enhance the operational experience of the systems you develop and be responsible for operating the software you build.
Author, contribute to, and review design documents.
Take an active role in shaping the roadmap and collaborate across teams and stakeholders.
Mentor and support other team members.
Participate in weekday (12h x 5d) and a separate weekend (24h x 2d) on-call rotations.
Prioritize pragmatic, safe rollouts for large-scale platform changes to avoid service disruptions.

Requirements / What Makes You a Great Fit

Strong coding skills with operational experience — you have been responsible for operating the software you built.
Experience working on SaaS platforms and dealing with distributed systems problems (scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, high availability).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to choose appropriate communication modes and bring stakeholders on board.
Willingness to work across teams and align work with other squads and external stakeholders.
Pragmatic approach: prioritize progress over perfection and handle ambiguity effectively.
Familiarity with Golang on the backend, or strong willingness and aptitude to learn it.

Technologies / Context Mentioned

Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise Stack
Grafana OSS components referenced: Grafana Mimir (metrics), Grafana Loki (logs), Grafana Tempo (traces)
Backend development in Golang
SaaS, multi-tenancy, scalability, high availability, observability
On-call operations and production incident handling

Compensation & Equity

UK compensation range: £103,958 - £124,750 (actual compensation may vary by level, experience, and skillset). Role includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Why You'll Thrive / Benefits Highlights

100% remote, global culture and a remote-first company.
Scaling organization with meaningful, high-impact work.
Transparent communication, innovation-driven environment, and high-trust teams.
In-person onboarding to integrate new hires.
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum (with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days), subject to local legislation.

Other Notes

Grafana Labs permits use of modern AI coding assistants within security guidelines and provides company-funded usage budget and access to frontier models for developer productivity.
Equal opportunity employer; recruitment may use AI tools to assist in matching CVs to job postings.