Platform & Stack Ops Backend Engineer

Grafana

Town of Sweden (NY)

Hybrid

USD 64,000 - 80,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

RSUs
Remote-friendly culture
30 days annual leave
Grafana Shutdown Days

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Backend Engineer for the AppCore Stacks squad within Platform. You will help build and operate the stack management systems that power Grafana Cloud, including provisioning, migrations, and region rollout workflows.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and collaboration across product, platform, and business operations. We value engineers who thrive on stateful systems, reconciliation loops, and incident-response improvements.

Qualifications

  • Experience with distributed systems concepts (scalability, multi-tenancy, HA).
  • Ability to work in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
  • Proven ability to break down complex problems and ship reliable software.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems for stack state across Grafana Cloud.
  • Collaborate across teams to keep stack lifecycle workflows reliable and observable.
  • Improve deployment and rollout efficiency, including region and plugin rollouts.
  • Own incident response improvements and post-incident reviews for stack operations.
  • Partner with product, Hosted Grafana, and infrastructure squads on stack lifecycle work.
  • Contribute to roadmap planning and technical design for AppCore domains.
  • Lead major projects and define technical direction for the domain.

Skills

Kubernetes
TypeScript
Node.js
Kubernetes controllers
SaaS provisioning
Incident response
Remote work

Tools

Terraform
Jsonnet
Argo
Flux

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Backend Engineer for the AppCore Stacks squad within Platform. You will help build and operate the stack management systems that power Grafana Cloud, including provisioning, migrations, and region rollout workflows.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and collaboration across product, platform, and business operations. We value engineers who thrive on stateful systems, reconciliation loops, and incident-response improvements.

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