Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | Canada | Remote

grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role for Canada-based cand ides

Open-source observability platform

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a lead backend engineer to drive the development of an enterprise observability platform. You will design and deliver distributed systems that are secure, scalable, and operable at scale, working with a remote, globally distributed team.

You will set technical direction, guide backend services from design to production, improve reliability and multitenancy, and collaborate with customers to address real-world challenges. Experience with Go and on-call operations is valued.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Proven ability to lead technical projects across teams.
• Experience with Go or similar backend languages.
• Strong collaboration with customers and engineers in a remote setting.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and lead backend services.
• Take projects from design to production operations.
• Improve scalability, reliability, security, and multitenancy.
• Collaborate with customers and operate in a remote team.
• Participate in on-call rotation to maintain platform health.
• Contribute to open-source communities.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend architecture

Go programming

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Role overview

Lead backend engineering for an enterprise observability platform used by organizations operating large, complex infrastructure. The work centers on designing and delivering distributed systems that are secure, reliable, scalable, and adaptable to demanding operational and regulatory needs, while collaborating with customers and engineers across a remote team.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and lead development of backend services and enterprise capabilities.
• Take projects from early design through implementation, release, and production operation.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, security, multitenancy, and interoperability.
• Work with large-scale operators to understand their challenges and deliver solutions that support their objectives.
• Contribute to engineering practices and open-source communities.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the operational health of the platform.

Requirements

• Extensive software engineering experience, including building backend infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and the challenges of operating them at scale.
• Proficiency with Go or experience applicable to a Go-based backend.
• Ability to lead technical projects and collaborate across teams and with customers.
• Interest in building reliable systems for software engineers, site reliability engineers, and platform operators.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote role for candidates based in Canada, within a globally distributed team.
• Work with an open-source-based observability platform and large-scale infrastructure challenges.
• The source describes a global annual leave policy of 30 days, including three designated company shutdown days, subject to local law.