Remote Backend Engineer — Alerting Infrastructure

Grafana; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a backend software engineer for the Grafana Alerting squad. This fully remote role focuses on building and scaling alerting and SLO-related features across Grafana Cloud and on-premise deployments.

You’ll collaborate with customers and Cloud teams to ensure reliable, scalable alerting across distributed systems. You’ll work in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment with regular video meetings, modern tooling, and a commitment to open-source principles.

Qualifications

• Motivated self-starter with a bias towards action.
• Customer-focused mindset with users in mind.
• Experience collaborating in a fully remote team.
• Solid programming experience; Go preferred, other languages accepted.

Responsibilities

• Influence roadmap and own career objectives with your team.
• Deliver new features and iterate based on results.
• Own projects from ideation to production operations.
• Contribute to open-source culture beyond team scope.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems for reliability and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations and own the services you run.
• Mentor teammates and participate in design discussions.
• Learn the Grafana Cloud product and the codebase of a large distributed system.

Skills

Self-starter

Customer focus

Collaboration

Communication

Go

Python

Java

C++

Rust

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a backend software engineer for the Grafana Alerting squad. This fully remote role focuses on building and scaling alerting and SLO-related features across Grafana Cloud and on-premise deployments.

You’ll collaborate with customers and Cloud teams to ensure reliable, scalable alerting across distributed systems. You’ll work in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment with regular video meetings, modern tooling, and a commitment to open-source principles.