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Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | UK | Remote
Backend Developer
• Principal
• Remote
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United Kingdom
The Grafana Alerting squad sits at the core of the Grafana open-source project, aiming to provide the most in-depth way for users to manage alerts; the backend-focused team is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to work on Alerting both on-prem and at infinite scale in the Cloud.
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
Self-starting, action-oriented attitudeCustomer-focused thinkingPragmatism and iterative problem-solvingGood communication in a fully remote, video-call-based collaboration
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.
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