Senior Backend Engineer (Go) - Remote, Observability at Scale

Grafana; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work policy

30 days annual leave

Grafana Shutdown Days

Equity

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Mimir squad engineer to build and operate the Grafana Cloud telemetry stack. You’ll design, implement, and maintain distributed systems in Go, scale metrics processing, and contribute to open‑source projects like Mimir, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope.

This is a remote‑first opportunity open to candidates in the US and Canada. You’ll collaborate in a fully remote team, participate in on‑call rotations, review PRs, and shape the roadmap while learning Grafana Cloud product

Qualifications

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred).
• Collaborative, strong communication skills in a fully remote team.
• Experience with Go; familiarity with Python, C, C++, or Rust translates well.
• Experience delivering projects from requirements to shipping a product.
• Cloud software development or systems engineering experience.
• On-call experience and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Take an active role in influencing roadmap and career objectives.
• Deliver new features with your team and iterate based on results.
• Drive projects from idea to production with customers in mind.
• Contribute to open-source projects and workflows outside your team’s scope.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical distributed systems with focus on reliability and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations and own your services.

Skills

Go

Python

C/C++

Rust

Collaboration

Observability concepts

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Mimir squad engineer to build and operate the Grafana Cloud telemetry stack. You’ll design, implement, and maintain distributed systems in Go, scale metrics processing, and contribute to open‑source projects like Mimir, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope.

This is a remote‑first opportunity open to candidates in the US and Canada. You’ll collaborate in a fully remote team, participate in on‑call rotations, review PRs, and shape the roadmap while learning Grafana Cloud product