Remote Staff Backend Engineer, Observability & Cloud

Grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 108,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs, the remote-first company behind Grafana Cloud, is expanding its Grafana Alerting squad. This role focuses on building scalable alerting in the cloud, collaborating across teams, and delivering reliable, observable software for customers worldwide.

If you are self-motivated, customer-focused, and comfortable working remotely from Spain, you will influence roadmaps, own features end-to-end, and contribute to open-source projects while growing your career in a high-trust, open culture.

Qualifications

• Self-starter with bias towards action and strong communication.
• Customer-focused mindset with users in mind.
• Ability to work in a fully remote team and contribute ideas.
• Interest in open-source and cloud-native software.
• Experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred).
• Ability to deliver projects from requirements to shipping.

Responsibilities

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers.
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability.
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team.
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system.

Skills

Self starter

Customer focus

User-centric

Product thinking

Pragmatic

Team collaboration

Communication

Go

Project delivery

Cloud software

Clean code

Job description

Grafana Labs, the remote-first company behind Grafana Cloud, is expanding its Grafana Alerting squad. This role focuses on building scalable alerting in the cloud, collaborating across teams, and delivering reliable, observable software for customers worldwide.

If you are self-motivated, customer-focused, and comfortable working remotely from Spain, you will influence roadmaps, own features end-to-end, and contribute to open-source projects while growing your career in a high-trust, open culture.