[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Grafana Labs

Mar 29, 2025 - Grafana Labs is hiring a remote Senior Backend Engineer. 💸 Salary: €94,208 - €117,760. 📍Location: UK, Germany, Sweden, Spain.

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Role Description

This is a full time remote role for candidates in the UK, Sweden, Spain and Germany.

As a Mimir engineer, you will:

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 idea 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 follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
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

Qualifications

You are a motivated self-starter with a bias towards action
You are customer focused and have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
Pragmatism: You can take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops
Collaboration and communication: Good communication skills are a must
Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, but familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar is acceptable)
Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product
Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering
Some experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
Familiarity with observability systems, know when to use metrics, logs, traces to debug a problem

Requirements

Experience working with Kubernetes (nice to have)
Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol (nice to have)
Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (nice to have)
Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn (nice to have)
Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code (nice to have)

Benefits

Base compensation range for this role in Germany is €94,208 - €117,760
Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process
Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits

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Senior Backend Engineer @Grafana Labs

Software Development

Salary 💸 €94,208 - €117,760	Remote Location UK, Germany, Sweden, Spain
Job Type full-time	Posted Mar 29, 2025

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📍	Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: UK, Germany, Sweden, Spain
‼	Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more.