[Hiring] Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability @Grafana Labs
Apr 04, 2025 - Grafana Labs is hiring a remote Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: USA.
Role Description
This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants from the United States Eastern time zones only at this time.
In this role, you will be part of the team that builds our Cloud Observability stack that allows customers to collect and visualize metrics from various systems and applications. We build and maintain the backend of opinionated apps such as:
- Cloud Provider O11y
- Database O11y
- K8s Monitoring
This includes the dashboards, alerts, documentation, and infrastructure while working closely with other teams to ensure seamless experiences. We also strive to incorporate OSS contributions in our work by continuing to augment projects like Alloy, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, and Beyla.
The Observability department provides a core building block for customers using Grafana Cloud, and contributes significantly to our user value.
As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a unique perspective to the software. We are looking for Engineers that are passionate about communicating with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team! Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities.
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 with 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 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.
Equal Opportunity Employer
At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.
We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.
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