Staff Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems (Remote)

Grafana Labs; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% Remote

Global culture

Annual leave 30 days

Grafana Shutdown Days

Job summary

Grafana Labs is a remote-only company with a global team delivering Grafana Enterprise and Cloud. This Staff Backend Engineer role focuses on building scalable backend infrastructure in Go, with strong emphasis on distributed systems, reliability, and security across large-scale operators.

You will work with enterprise customers and cloud providers, shaping features, and driving architectural decisions in a fully remote environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building production backend services at scale.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts and patterns.
• Familiarity with Go and modern backend tooling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for remote collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead development of backend services and distributed systems at scale.
• Drive reliability, security, and multi-tenant capability across the Grafana platform.
• Collaborate with product and UX to shape features and ship end-to-end solutions.
• Engage with enterprise customers to understand requirements and translate them into robust engineering solutions.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Backend services

Remote work

Open source

Job description

Grafana Labs is a remote-only company with a global team delivering Grafana Enterprise and Cloud. This Staff Backend Engineer role focuses on building scalable backend infrastructure in Go, with strong emphasis on distributed systems, reliability, and security across large-scale operators.

You will work with enterprise customers and cloud providers, shaping features, and driving architectural decisions in a fully remote environment.