Staff Backend Engineer, Cloud Observability (Remote)

Grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking an engineer to design, build, operate, and maintain core observability systems in a remote-first environment. You’ll influence roadmaps and own features from ideation to production, collaborating with Go-based microservices, Kubernetes clusters, and OpenTelemetry components.

Applicants should be proficient in at least one modern language (Go preferred) and have experience with cloud-native architectures.

Qualifications

• Experience with at least one modern programming language (Go preferred).
• Familiarity with cloud-native services and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of Go ecosystem and related tooling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems for reliability and performance.
• Influence roadmap and own career objectives within the team.
• Collaborate to deliver new features and iterate based on feedback.
• Lead projects from ideation to production and on-call ownership.
• Contribute to open-source culture and other projects beyond your team.
• Mentor teammates and participate in design discussions.

Skills

Go

Python

C

C++

Rust

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking an engineer to design, build, operate, and maintain core observability systems in a remote-first environment. You’ll influence roadmaps and own features from ideation to production, collaborating with Go-based microservices, Kubernetes clusters, and OpenTelemetry components.

Applicants should be proficient in at least one modern language (Go preferred) and have experience with cloud-native architectures.