Senior Backend Engineer — Go & Distributed Systems (Remote)

Grafana Labs; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs in the United States is seeking a software engineering leader who thrives in a fully remote, asynchronous environment. You will help shape the product through writing, reviews, and shipped code, while balancing operational mindset and product sense.

You will work on multi-tenant SaaS observability tools, profiling, OpenTelemetry, and cloud services, using Go, Kubernetes, and other languages. Expect collaboration across distributed teams, and a focus on reliability as a feature.

Qualifications

• Experience building multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure.
• Strong Go and systems programming skills.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and observability.
• Experience with distributed systems at scale on Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and ship features in a fully remote team.
• Lead through writing, reviews, and shipped code.
• Collaborate with customers and handle ambiguity in product direction.
• Improve reliability and performance of cloud services.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Performance engineering

Open-source collaboration

Kubernetes

Observability tooling

Profiling tools

Remote collaboration

OpenTelemetry

Cloud services

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

pprof

Flamegraphs

Job description

Grafana Labs in the United States is seeking a software engineering leader who thrives in a fully remote, asynchronous environment. You will help shape the product through writing, reviews, and shipped code, while balancing operational mindset and product sense.

You will work on multi-tenant SaaS observability tools, profiling, OpenTelemetry, and cloud services, using Go, Kubernetes, and other languages. Expect collaboration across distributed teams, and a focus on reliability as a feature.