Staff Backend Software Engineer - Loki | Singapore | Remote

Grafana; Singapore; Remote; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company

AI tooling usage budget

Job summary

Grafana Labs, the company behind Grafana Cloud, is scaling a fully remote observability platform used by thousands of organizations. Our stack emphasizes open source, interoperability, and AI-assisted development in Go and Kubernetes.

As a member of our distributed team, you’ll design, build, and operate critical systems, influence the roadmap, mentor teammates, and own features from ideation to production while embracing our remote-first culture.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in at least one programming language (Go preferred).
• Experience delivering end-to-end software projects in a self-driven way.
• Comfort working in a fully remote, distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems with reliability, performance, and availability ownership.
• Collaborate with teammates to deliver new features and iterate based on results.
• Own projects from ideation to production and participate in on-call rotations.
• Mentor teammates and contribute to design discussions and code reviews.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Code review

Tools

Prometheus

Loki

Tempo

Pyroscope

Job description

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

This role is available for candidates located in Australia or Singapore.

The Opportunity:

Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.

As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software. Our tech stack is mostly made up of services written in Go, running on multiple Kubernetes clusters that leverage Cloud object storage.

We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction.
We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always paired with strong code review and quality standards.

You’ll also have access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability.
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers.
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope.
• Be a part of your team’s on‑call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team.
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action.
• You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs .
• Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively.
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must.

Requirements:

• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well.
• Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements and brainstorming ideas, all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way.
• Some experience with developing software that