Staff Backend Engineer

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: 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. Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applications from Spain. The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project (link) , and our mission is to provide the most in-depth way to let users manage their alerts. The backend-focused team works closely with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-prem and at infinite scale in Cloud. Our domain is quite large, so to get an idea of the kind of work we do, here are some projects we recently worked on: Build distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts Unify Alerting setup and delivery to work the same for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts Build distributed systems to scale alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production. Grafana Alerting is trusted by major organizations worldwide, monitoring essential medical devices and critical infrastructure. Drive projects from initial ideation 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 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. Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs: ~100% Remote, Global Culture
-  As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose. ~ In-Person onboarding
- We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.  ~ Balance is Key
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