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Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | US | Remote

Grafana Labs United States (Remote) Remote staff full-time

Salary

$174,986 - $209,983 USD per year

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Description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their Grafana Enterprise team, a composable observability platform for large-scale operators with security and regulatory requirements.

The successful candidate will design and build backend systems powering Grafana Enterprise, focusing on distributed systems, reliability, scalability, and performance at scale.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing and leading the development of backend services, distributed systems, and enterprise features at scale
  • Driving continuous improvement of the engineering culture
  • Contributing to the scalability, reliability, security, and multi-tenancy of the Grafana platform
  • Owning the operational health of the platform
  • Hiring and developing the best engineers

The ideal candidate will have deep professional experience writing production services, strong distributed systems fundamentals, and demonstrated experience designing and operating systems for large-scale environments.

In terms of technical competencies, the company is looking for:

  • Deep professional experience writing production services
  • Strong distributed systems fundamentals
  • Demonstrated experience designing and operating systems for large-scale environments
  • Professional experience building and consuming gRPC/protobuf APIs
  • Strong database skills
  • Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems and build tooling
  • Comfort working with Kubernetes and containerized deployment environments
  • Experience with observability tooling

Nice to have technical competencies include experience with TypeScript and React, Grafana's LGTM+ observability stack, and prior experience at or building for large-scale cloud service providers.

The compensation range for this role is $174,986 - $209,983 USD.

Benefits include:

  • 100% Remote, Global Culture
  • Scaling Organization
  • Transparent Communication
  • Innovation-Driven
  • Open Source Roots
  • Empowered Teams
  • Career Growth Pathways
  • Approachable Leadership
  • Passionate People
  • In-Person onboarding
  • Balance is Key

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Grafana's LGTM+ observability stack
  • large-scale cloud service providers

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