Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | Canada | Remote

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Architect and implement distributed backend services in Go, focused on correctness, observability, and performance at scale
• ▹Design APIs and service contracts used by thousands of enterprise operators and cloud service providers
• ▹Collaborate with Product and UX to shape features and partner with frontend engineers on end-to-end solutions
• ▹Drive scalability and reliability improvements in regulated, high-availability environments
• ▹Engage directly with large enterprise customers and cloud service providers to understand requirements
• ▹Participate in on-call rotations (weekday 12h x 5d, separate weekend 24h x 2d)
• ▹Hire and develop engineers, provide technical leadership

Requirements

• ▹Deep professional experience writing production services, from ideation through to production operations at scale
• ▹Strong distributed systems fundamentals: replication, consistency models, partitioning, fault tolerance
• ▹Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale, high-traffic, high-availability, or multi-tenant systems
• ▹Professional experience building and consuming gRPC/protobuf APIs, designing clean service contracts
• ▹Strong database skills (PostgreSQL and/or MySQL): schema design, query optimization, schema migrations at scale
• ▹Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems and build tooling
• ▹Comfort working with Kubernetes and containerized deployment environments, including stateful workloads
• ▹Experience with observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing
• ▹Familiarity with dependency injection patterns (e.g. Google Wire) and clean, testable service architecture

Nice to have

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

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Equity, bonus (if applicable), and other benefits
• ▹100% remote, global culture
• ▹Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants

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.