Staff Backend Engineer (Go) — Remote, Multi-Cloud, Observability

grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 30 days

In-person onboarding

Remote work globally

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for a fully remote role on our platform query path for a multi-tenant cloud-hosted observability database handling metrics at hyperscale. You will collaborate with ingest and storage squads to evolve the OSS and managed cloud product across major clouds using Go and Kubernetes.

You will own reliability, performance, and on-call responsibilities while contributing to open-source initiatives and partnering with adjacent teams to push ideas from

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating distributed systems in Go.
• Experience running multi-tenant services on Kubernetes across major clouds.
• Hands-on work with high-volume telemetry or large-scale data systems.
• Ability to lead projects end-to-end and influence roadmaps.
• Comfort with on-call rotations and owning production services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and maintain services on the query path of a distributed metrics database, owning reliability, performance, and availability targets.
• Drive projects from initial concept through production rollout, often partnering with another engineer on larger initiatives.
• Write and review pull requests and design documents contributed by teammates across the squad.
• Shepherd automated release rollouts and participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations for the systems you support.
• Fold efficiency and resilience improvements discovered through production operations back into the codebase.
• Engage with adjacent open-source projects and contribute to initiatives beyond the team's immediate scope.

Skills

Go distributed systems

Kubernetes multi-tenant

Telemetry / large-scale data

Project leadership

On-call ownership

Tools

Prometheus

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for a fully remote role on our platform query path for a multi-tenant cloud-hosted observability database handling metrics at hyperscale. You will collaborate with ingest and storage squads to evolve the OSS and managed cloud product across major clouds using Go and Kubernetes.

You will own reliability, performance, and on-call responsibilities while contributing to open-source initiatives and partnering with adjacent teams to push ideas from