Grafana Labs
Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise
Canada (Remote) · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$186k-$224kDetected 13 days ago
TypeScriptReactDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLMySQLKubernetesCI/CDPrometheusGrafanagRPCNLPAccessibilitySalesforceLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Grafana Enterprise features are also part of our Grafana Cloud service.
- The Grafana Enterprise team is a diverse team of expert technologists working remotely from around the globe.
Responsibilities
- Hiring and developing the best engineers to build the future of Grafana
- Developing your skills as a thought leader to drive continuous improvement of engineering and operational practices across Grafana Labs
- Prior experience at or building for large-scale cloud service providers, IaaS providers, or global enterprises with demanding SLA requirements
- Experience designing or operating large-scale build infrastructure artifact registries, distributed build caches, hermetic build systems (e.g., Bazel), or developer platform tooling
Requirements
- You work well as a communicative member of a team of engineering professionals.
- You are customer focused and especially attuned to the needs of large-scale operators who rely on Grafana as critical infrastructure.
- Deep professional experience writing production services, from ideation through to production operations at scale
- Experience with TypeScript and React for contributing to frontend features and collaborating closely with frontend engineers
- Experience with Grafana's LGTM+ observability stack (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope, Alloy)
Nice to have
- Strong database skills, such as PostgreSQL and/or MySQL
- Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems and build tooling, designing, operating, or integrating with continuous delivery pipelines that serve large engineering organisations or external operators at scale
- Comfort working with Kubernetes and containerised deployment environments, including patterns for operating stateful workloads and multi-tenant clusters
Skills
- Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale.
- Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
- Grafana Cloud is an integrated suite of observability applications offered as a service.
Compensation
- In Canada, the compensation range for this role is $186,368 - $223,642 CAD.
Benefits
- Owning the operational health of our platform by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations. (Yes, we prioritize ops load reduction.)
Company info
- an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work.
- Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
- You may not meet every requirement, and that's okay.
- If this role excites you, we'd love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
- This is a remote position.
- We are looking for candidates in the US and Canada.
- The team focuses on innovative solutions to large-scale customer challenges and developing solutions that improve security, robustness, flexibility, multitenancy, and interoperability on behalf of our customers.
- Our customers include software engineers, site reliability engineers, and platform operators at medium, large, and global enterprises.
- Our meetings tend to happen between 14:00 and 17:00 UTC, but we are flexible and responsive to the needs of our engineers and our customers.
- We are looking for experienced software engineers who are passionate about distributed systems and building reliable, scalable backend infrastructure to join our growing team.
- Earning the trust of our large-scale operator customers to further Grafana's "big tent" philosophy of data accessibility and to meet clear business objectives
- As we are remote-first, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so strong teamwork and excellent written and interpersonal communication skills are a must.
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