Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, Scalable Observability

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 154,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Remote-first

Job summary

Grafana Labs is a remote-first company offering Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform. We seek a Mimir squad engineer to influence our roadmap, deliver scalable features, and maintain critical systems across major cloud providers.

You will work in a fully remote, global team with on-call responsibilities, collaboration across time zones, and a focus on reliability, performance, and innovate open-source contributions.

Qualifications

• Pragmatic problem solving and MVP delivery.
• Strong collaboration and remote communication in teams.
• Experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred).
• Cloud/Systems engineering experience welcomed.
• On-call experience and DevOps familiarity beneficial.
• Experience writing clean, robust, maintainable code.
• Familiarity with observability tools for metrics, logs, traces.

Responsibilities

• Take an active role influencing roadmap and personal career objectives.
• Deliver new features with your team and iterate based on results.
• Drive projects from idea to production in customer environments.
• Contribute to open-source projects and related initiatives.
• Design, build, operate and maintain mission-critical systems with reliability and performance in mind.
• Participate in on-call rotations and own services.
• Collaborate with team members and participate in design discussions.

Skills

Pragmatism

Collaboration

Go

Cloud experience

On-call experience

Clean code

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Mimir

Loki

Job description

Grafana Labs is a remote-first company offering Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform. We seek a Mimir squad engineer to influence our roadmap, deliver scalable features, and maintain critical systems across major cloud providers.

You will work in a fully remote, global team with on-call responsibilities, collaboration across time zones, and a focus on reliability, performance, and innovate open-source contributions.