Staff Backend Engineer – Grafana

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💵 €94k - €112.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 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

• Design, implement, test, and operate backend services for context ingestion, indexing, retrieval orchestration, API access, source configuration, and system administration • Define and build a scalable multi-tenant SaaS architecture with tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, background jobs, and reliable service boundaries • Build APIs and service interfaces for AI agents, MCP tools, CLIs, and internal applications to retrieve context, provenance, confidence signals, and warnings • Balance rapid experimentation with long-term reliability as the project moves from prototype to production • Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards • Shape architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, deployment patterns, and engineering practices • Take ownership of scalable, maintainable AI solutions aligned with real user workflows • Collaborate across product, infrastructure, and engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems • Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks • Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and building GenAI-powered applications • Proven track record of delivering software used by users in production • Exposure to cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure • Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior • Ability to release prototypes, collect feedback, and iterate pragmatically • Ability to work through ambiguity, define scope, and make pragmatic architectural decisions • Bonus: Experience with agent frameworks or multi-agent workflows • Bonus: Experience with data platforms such as Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Snowflake, or Databricks • Bonus: Experience building tools for data engineering

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • 100% remote work • Career growth pathways • In-person onboarding • 30 days of annual leave per annum • 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days