Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Backend Engineer and contribute to the development of Grafana’s next-generation storage layer. You will be working on the Unified Storage component, Search, and Folders features, using Kubernetes-inspired design patterns. This is a remote position open to applicants in Canada time zones only. Responsibilities include designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability. You will collaborate with a team, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor other team members. The role requires a strong background in Go programming, experience with large distributed systems, and a passion for creating intuitive products. Grafana offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Solid experience with the Go programming language
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with large distributed systems
• Experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer focused
• You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• 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 team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must

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 ideation 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 on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
• Mentor and 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Have 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 being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)