Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | US | Remote

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design and lead development of backend services, distributed systems and enterprise features at scale
• ▹Drive projects from initial ideation through the development lifecycle to production
• ▹Design APIs and service contracts used by thousands of enterprise operators and cloud providers
• ▹Collaborate with Product and UX, and partner with frontend engineers to ship end-to-end solutions
• ▹Participate in on-call rotations (weekday 12h x 5d, separate weekend 24h x 2d)
• ▹Drive scalability and reliability improvements in regulated, high-availability environments

Requirements

• ▹Deep professional experience writing production services from ideation to production operations
• ▹Strong distributed systems fundamentals: replication, consistency models, partitioning, fault tolerance
• ▹Experience designing and operating large-scale, high-traffic, high-availability or multi-tenant systems
• ▹Professional experience building and consuming gRPC/protobuf APIs and clean service contracts
• ▹Strong database skills (PostgreSQL and/or MySQL), schema design, query optimization
• ▹Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems and build tooling
• ▹Comfort with Kubernetes and containerized deployment environments
• ▹Experience with observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with TypeScript and React for frontend features
• ▹Experience with Grafana's LGTM+ stack (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope, Alloy)
• ▹Prior experience at large cloud service providers or global enterprises with demanding SLAs

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹100% remote, global company culture
• ▹Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and bonus eligibility
• ▹30 days annual leave including 3 company Shutdown Days
• ▹Career growth pathways
• ▹Company-funded AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot)
• ▹US base compensation range: USD 174,986 - 209,983

About the company

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, built on the principles of open source, open standards, and open culture. Grafana Cloud is trusted by more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce. The company is 100% remote with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries.