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, requiring strong collaboration and communication skills. Responsibilities include designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical systems, ensuring reliability and performance. You will also mentor team members and participate in design discussions. The role demands a passion for creating intuitive products and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving. 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

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)