Remote Backend Engineer: Scale Data Systems

Grafanalabs

United States

Remote

USD 174,986 - 218,733

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work environment
30 days annual leave
In-person onboarding

Job summary

Grafana Labs is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Session Replay squad. This fully remote role focuses on building a product that enhances user experience during incidents.

The candidate will lead technical direction, drive backend architecture evolution, and connect diverse teams through innovative solutions. A passion for data and complex problem solving is essential. Compensation ranges from USD 174,986 to USD 218,733 based on experience.

Qualifications

  • Comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key.
  • Collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful team dynamics.
  • Ability to reason about data-intensive systems.
  • Comfortable owning features in ambiguous problem spaces.
  • Good understanding of a user-centered software development process.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end technical direction for Session Replay.
  • Drive the evolution of backend architecture for session data.
  • Lead the design of investigation workflows.
  • Make architectural decisions impacting multiple teams.
  • Improve engineering standards and mentor engineers.

Skills

Remote work communication
Data-intensive systems reasoning
Feature ownership in ambiguous spaces
User-centered software development
Complex solution development

Tools

Go
TypeScript
React
Columnar data storage

Job description

Grafana Labs is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Session Replay squad. This fully remote role focuses on building a product that enhances user experience during incidents.

The candidate will lead technical direction, drive backend architecture evolution, and connect diverse teams through innovative solutions. A passion for data and complex problem solving is essential. Compensation ranges from USD 174,986 to USD 218,733 based on experience.

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