Staff Backend Engineer, Grafana App Platform

🕒 May 6

🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $186.4k - $223.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Grafana Labs

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in open-source observability technologies and solutions. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for logging, metrics, tracing, and profile management with products like Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir. Their offerings are designed to help businesses visualize, monitor, and alert on data from various sources, providing capabilities such as anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and service level objective management using AI/ML insights. Grafana Labs provides both cloud-based and self-managed solutions, ideal for infrastructure, application, and frontend observability. Additionally, their platform supports integration with various data sources like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, making them a key player in the observability and infrastructure monitoring space.

📋 Description

• Code new features and enhance the operational experience of developed systems • Iteratively improve systems based on production insights • Author, contribute to, and review design documents • Actively shape the roadmap • Mentor and support team members • Collaborate with teams across the organization • Own the customer experience by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations • Refactor Grafana's architecture for multi-tenancy, scalability, and standardized operation • Safely plan and roll out changes to avoid service disruptions

🎯 Requirements

• Strong coding skills and operational experience; responsible for operating software built • Experience working on a SaaS platform • Experience with distributed systems problems such as scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, and high availability • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Willingness to work across teams and align with squads and external stakeholders • Pragmatic approach, prioritizing progress over perfection and handling ambiguity • Familiarity with Golang or enthusiasm to learn it

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants • Access to frontier AI models, including GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.7, and Gemini 3 Pro • 100% remote work • Career growth pathways • In-person onboarding • 30 days of annual leave per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days • Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates • Autonomy and support to ship great work • Empowered, high-trust teams