Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a remote Software Engineer in the United Kingdom! We're a rapidly growing company building a scalable, multi-tenant observability platform. You'll be working with Golang to refactor and improve Grafana's core architecture, ensuring seamless operation for millions of users. This role requires strong coding skills, SaaS platform experience, and excellent communication. You'll collaborate across teams, contribute to design documents, and participate in on-call rotations. The base compensation is competitive, and benefits include equity and a bonus (if applicable). Apply today!

Requirements

• Possess strong coding skills and operational experience; be responsible for operating the software you have built
• Have worked on a SaaS platform and dealt with common distributed systems problems (e.g., scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA, …)
• Have excellent communication skills
• Be willing to work across teams
• Be pragmatic; prioritize progress over perfection; handle ambiguity
• Be familiar with Golang or be excited to learn the language

Responsibilities

• Code new features
• Enhance the operational experience of the systems you develop
• Iteratively improve systems based on production insights
• Author, contribute to, and review design documents
• Take an active role in shaping the roadmap
• Mentor and support other team members
• Collaborate with different teams across the organization
• Own the experience of our customers by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and a separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Golang

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)