Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Observability Platform

Grafana; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a backend engineer to own and lead complex, multi-month projects for a distributed tracing platform. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver robust APIs and scalable data paths.

This remote-friendly role emphasizes autonomy and delivering observable, reliable systems. You should have strong Go skills, a deep understanding of distributed systems, and experience operating production services.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Go, distributed systems, and production operations.
• Experience with observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo.

Responsibilities

• Own backend components across data ingestion, storage, query, and metrics.
• Lead complex, multi-month engineering projects for a distributed tracing platform.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver robust APIs.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Production operations

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Tempo

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a backend engineer to own and lead complex, multi-month projects for a distributed tracing platform. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver robust APIs and scalable data paths.

This remote-friendly role emphasizes autonomy and delivering observable, reliable systems. You should have strong Go skills, a deep understanding of distributed systems, and experience operating production services.