Remote Staff Backend Engineer — Enterprise Observability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role for Canada-based cand ides

Open-source observability platform

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a lead backend engineer to drive the development of an enterprise observability platform. You will design and deliver distributed systems that are secure, scalable, and operable at scale, working with a remote, globally distributed team.

You will set technical direction, guide backend services from design to production, improve reliability and multitenancy, and collaborate with customers to address real-world challenges. Experience with Go and on-call operations is valued.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Proven ability to lead technical projects across teams.
• Experience with Go or similar backend languages.
• Strong collaboration with customers and engineers in a remote setting.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and lead backend services.
• Take projects from design to production operations.
• Improve scalability, reliability, security, and multitenancy.
• Collaborate with customers and operate in a remote team.
• Participate in on-call rotation to maintain platform health.
• Contribute to open-source communities.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend architecture

Go programming

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a lead backend engineer to drive the development of an enterprise observability platform. You will design and deliver distributed systems that are secure, scalable, and operable at scale, working with a remote, globally distributed team.

You will set technical direction, guide backend services from design to production, improve reliability and multitenancy, and collaborate with customers to address real-world challenges. Experience with Go and on-call operations is valued.