[Hiring] Backend Engineer @Grafana Labs

Role Description

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.
• Help your team 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.
• 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.

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction.

We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always paired with strong code review and quality standards.

You’ll also have access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro).

Qualifications

• You are a motivated self-starter with a bias towards action.
• You are customer-focused, building everything with users in mind.
• You have a passion for building intuitive products that fit customers’ needs.
• You have good time management skills.
• Pragmatism: You have a bias towards action, taking direction and building a plan of action.
• Collaboration and communication: Good communication and time management skills are a must.
• AI: Some experience using LLMs for day-to-day coding tasks and understanding a codebase.
• 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 as a member of a larger team.
• 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.
• Some familiarity with observability systems, knowing when to use metrics, logs, and traces to debug a problem.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
• Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
• In-Person onboarding – Thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’.
• Balance is Key – Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.