Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, an open-source observability platform for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. The Staff Backend Engineer will work on the Mimir Query squad to design, build, operate, and maintain large-scale distributed database systems, while driving projects, improving reliability and performance, and participating in on-call operations.
Responsibilities
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
- Drive projects from initial idea all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
- Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
- Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
- Support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
- Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system
Skills
- ### **This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the USA time zones.**
- You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
- You are customer focused
- We build everything with our users in mind
- You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs
- You have good time management skills, which you leverage to work on the right things at the right time
- * Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
- * Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a squad. You'll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication and time management skills are a must
- * Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
- * Experience with leading and delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer's hands in a self-driven and collaborative way
- * Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud *or* experience with systems engineering
- * Experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model
- * Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
- * Familiarity with observability systems, know when to use metrics, logs, traces, to debug a problem
- * Comfortable with microservices architecture and distributed systems
- * Experience and comfort developing with LLMs like Claude and Codex on your day to day
- * Experience working with Kubernetes
- * Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol
- * Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
- * Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus (if applicable)
- Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants
- Access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
- 100% remote work
- Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career
- In-person onboarding
- 30 days of annual leave per annum
- 3 days of annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
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