Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | US | Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

grafanalabs is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to drive the architecture of our enterprise observability platform. You will design distributed systems that are secure, scalable, and operable in large, regulated environments, while collaborating with a remote team and customers.

You will set technical direction, own backend services from design through production, improve reliability and multitenancy, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to open-source communities as part of a

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Go programming

Technical 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 the United States or 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.