Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | UK | Remote

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Responsibilities

• ▹Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and your own career objectives
• ▹Work with the team to deliver new features, then use results to iterate and improve
• ▹Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once in customers' hands
• ▹Embrace the open-source culture and contribute to projects beyond the team's immediate scope
• ▹Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability
• ▹Be part of the team's on-call rotation
• ▹Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team

Requirements

• ▹Motivated self-starter with a bias towards action
• ▹Customer focus, passion for creating intuitive products
• ▹Pragmatism: breaking complex challenges into short feedback loops, building modular solutions, delivering MVPs
• ▹Collaboration and communication skills in a fully remote setup
• ▹Solid experience with at least one programming language (team uses Go, but Python, Java, C++, or Rust translates well)
• ▹Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering to shipping in a self-driven way
• ▹Experience developing software that runs in the cloud, or systems engineering experience
• ▹Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that's easily maintained

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) with every role
• ▹UK compensation range: GBP 103,958 - GBP 124,750
• ▹100% remote, global culture
• ▹30 days of annual leave, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days

About the company

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, building Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform. More than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers - including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce - trust Grafana Labs to ensure the reliability of their systems. It's a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors.