Staff Backend Engineer: Adaptive Telemetry & Databases (Remote)

Neura Market; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus (if applicable)

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Adaptive Telemetry to drive architecture, reliability and performance across telemetry databases in a remote-first setup. You will own large distributed systems, lead cross-team initiatives and mentor engineers, with compensation discussed during the interview process.

This role emphasizes cloud-native design, SLO/SLI definitions, and AI-assisted development practices.

Qualifications

• Proven delivery of large distributed systems across multiple teams.
• Strong systems-design instincts around latency, availability and cost.
• Hands-on cloud and platform experience with microservices and Kubernetes.
• Ability to define SLOs/SLIs and lead reliability work end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy and roadmap; define architectural vision.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects.
• Own architecture, reliability, performance and cost for critical systems.
• Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response.
• Improve observability, automation and operational readiness.
• Mentor and grow engineering talent.
• Represent engineering in cross-team planning.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Cloud-Native

Go

Kafka

Kubernetes

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

IaC

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Adaptive Telemetry to drive architecture, reliability and performance across telemetry databases in a remote-first setup. You will own large distributed systems, lead cross-team initiatives and mentor engineers, with compensation discussed during the interview process.

This role emphasizes cloud-native design, SLO/SLI definitions, and AI-assisted development practices.