Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting — Remote Germany

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 126,000 - 151,000; Full time

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Job summary

Grafana Labs is a fully remote company seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Alerting. You will work on core alerting features, scale, and reliability, collaborating with global teams to ship robust software.

You’ll own parts of the roadmap, mentor others, and contribute to distributed systems. The role emphasizes open-source values, autonomy, and a customer-focused approach, with on-call responsibilities and cloud familiarity.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with at least one programming language. Go is used, familiarity with Python, Java, C++, or Rust translates well.
• Experience delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product.
• Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C++

Rust

Job description

Grafana Labs is a fully remote company seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Alerting. You will work on core alerting features, scale, and reliability, collaborating with global teams to ship robust software.

You’ll own parts of the roadmap, mentor others, and contribute to distributed systems. The role emphasizes open-source values, autonomy, and a customer-focused approach, with on-call responsibilities and cloud familiarity.