Remote Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting — Scale Cloud

Grafanalabs; Sweden; Remote; SEK 878,578 - 1,054,294; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is a remote-first company building the open observability cloud. This Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting role focuses on the Grafana Alerting stack, enabling reliable alert delivery at scale for Grafana Cloud and on-prem deployments.

You will influence the roadmap, own key services, and collaborate across teams while delivering features end-to-end. You will design, build, operate, and maintain high‑performing distributed systems, participate in on‑call rotations, mentor teammates, and

Qualifications

• Proven backend engineering experience in distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud or on-prem deployment models.
• Strong collaboration and communication in a fully remote setup.

Responsibilities

• Influence roadmap and own career objectives within the team.
• Collaborate to deliver new features and iterate based on results.
• Drive projects from ideation to production operations.
• Contribute to open-source projects beyond scope.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems focusing on reliability, performance, and availability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and own the services you run.
• Mentor teammates and engage in design discussions.
• Learn Grafana Cloud, codebase, and larger distributed systems.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C++

Rust

Job description

Grafana Labs is a remote-first company building the open observability cloud. This Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting role focuses on the Grafana Alerting stack, enabling reliable alert delivery at scale for Grafana Cloud and on-prem deployments.

You will influence the roadmap, own key services, and collaborate across teams while delivering features end-to-end. You will design, build, operate, and maintain high‑performing distributed systems, participate in on‑call rotations, mentor teammates, and