Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs

Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise

United States (Remote) · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$175k-$210kDetected 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 the United States, the compensation range for this role is $174,986 - $209,983 USD.

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.

This listing is sourced directly from Grafana Labs's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.