Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry (Remote)

Logoslabs; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 132,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for Adaptive Telemetry within the Databases domain. This remote, global role welcomes candidates in Canadian time zones and focuses on building scalable telemetry databases for Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope.

You will own architecture, reliability, and cost, drive strategy, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product and design teams to deliver impactful platform improvements.

Qualifications

• Proven delivery of large distributed systems.
• Strong systems-design instincts for scalable architectures.
• Hands-on cloud and platform experience in production environments.
• Reliability and performance ownership across services.
• Excellent coding and design skills (Go preferred).
• Comfort with AI-assisted development and tooling.
• Experience with messaging and telemetry systems.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy and roadmap for adaptive telemetry platforms.
• 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 and post-mortems.
• Improve observability, automation and operational readiness.
• Align stakeholders and unblock delivery through cross-team collaboration.
• Mentor and grow engineering talent across teams.
• Represent engineering in internal and external forums.

Skills

Distributed systems

System design

Cloud & platforms

Reliability

Go

AI tools

Messaging systems

Stakeholder influence

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

Job description

Grafana Labs is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for Adaptive Telemetry within the Databases domain. This remote, global role welcomes candidates in Canadian time zones and focuses on building scalable telemetry databases for Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope.

You will own architecture, reliability, and cost, drive strategy, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product and design teams to deliver impactful platform improvements.