# Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | Canada | Remote

**Company**: Grafana Labs
**Location**: Canada (Remote)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $186,368 - $223,642 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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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 correctness, observability, 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

Requirements:

- 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:

- Experience with TypeScript and React

- Experience with Grafana's LGTM+ observability stack

- Prior experience at or building for large-scale cloud service providers

- Experience designing or operating large-scale build infrastructure artifact registries

The compensation range for this role in Canada is $186,368 - $223,642 CAD.

Benefits include:

- 100% remote, global culture

- Scaling organization

- Transparent communication

- Innovation-driven environment

- Open source roots

- Empowered teams

- Career growth pathways

- Approachable leadership

- Passionate people

- In-person onboarding

- Balance is key with a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum

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## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- Go
- gRPC/protobuf APIs
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Kubernetes
- observability tooling
- CI/CD systems
- database skills

### Nice to have
- TypeScript
- React
- Grafana's LGTM+ observability stack
- large-scale cloud service providers
- build infrastructure artifact registries

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