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Staff Backend Engineer @Grafana Labs

[Hiring] Staff Backend Engineer @Grafana Labs

Apr 04, 2025 - Grafana Labs is hiring a remote Staff Backend Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: Canada.

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Role Description

This role involves being part of the team that builds our Cloud Observability stack, allowing customers to collect and visualize metrics from various systems and applications.

  • Develop and maintain our portfolio of opinionated observability apps such as Cloud Provider Observability, Database O11y, and K8s Monitoring.
  • Design and implement high-quality, scalable integrations for various infrastructure components, databases, and applications.
  • Create middleware components, SDKs, and libraries that simplify development and maintenance of observability solutions.
  • Represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events when necessary.
  • Work with product teams to develop features that align with wider product strategy and customer needs.
  • Support the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions.
  • Collaborate with other departments including GTM, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience.
  • Participate in your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running.
  • Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in software development, with strong proficiency in Golang.
  • Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems.
  • Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software.
  • Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry).
  • Experience delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner.
  • Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, setting technical direction and leading project teams.
  • Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
  • Strong mentoring and leadership skills.
  • Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications.
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects, with evidence of successful pull requests and community collaboration.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining workloads running on Kubernetes.
  • In-depth knowledge of cloud platform internals.
  • Strong understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts.

Benefits

  • For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.

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