Senior Backend Engineer - Remote (Ireland)

Grafana; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Job summary

Grafana Labs, a fully remote company, is seeking engineers for the Grafana Alerting squad. You will design, build, operate, and maintain reliable distributed systems handling alert ingestion, evaluation, and delivery at scale.

The role emphasizes collaboration, open-source contributions, and ownership of services from ideation through production. Ideal candidates have strong programming experience (Go preferred) and comfort with a remote-first, highly communicative environment across teams and

Qualifications

• Self-starter with initiative and strong collaboration.
• Customer-focused mindset and ability to ship usable features.
• Experience delivering projects from idea to production in a distributed system.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go preferred).

Responsibilities

• Influence roadmap and own career objectives within the team.
• Collaborate to deliver new features and iterate based on results.
• Own the design, build, operation, and reliability of critical services.
• Contribute to open-source culture and cross-project work.
• Participate in on-call rotations and mentor teammates.

Skills

Go

Python familiarity

Java familiarity

C++ familiarity

Tools

Prometheus

Job description

Grafana Labs, a fully remote company, is seeking engineers for the Grafana Alerting squad. You will design, build, operate, and maintain reliable distributed systems handling alert ingestion, evaluation, and delivery at scale.

The role emphasizes collaboration, open-source contributions, and ownership of services from ideation through production. Ideal candidates have strong programming experience (Go preferred) and comfort with a remote-first, highly communicative environment across teams and