Staff Backend Engineer — Remote, Enterprise Observability

Grafana; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote work

30 days annual leave

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking an experienced Staff Backend Engineer to design and build the backend systems powering Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud. You will work on distributed services in Go, ensuring reliability, scalability, and multi-tenant support, while collaborating across product and frontend teams in a remote, global environment.

The role emphasizes leadership in architecture, APIs, and operational excellence, with a focus on high-availability environments and customer-focused

Qualifications

• Experience building production backend services at scale.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and multi-tenant environments.
• Proficient in designing and consuming APIs, especially gRPC/protobuf.
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and query optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services and distributed systems at scale.
• Architect APIs and service contracts for enterprise operators.
• Improve engineering culture and drive improvements across teams.
• Lead projects from ideation to production, ensuring reliability and security.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Backend engineering

gRPC

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL / MySQL

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

API design

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking an experienced Staff Backend Engineer to design and build the backend systems powering Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud. You will work on distributed services in Go, ensuring reliability, scalability, and multi-tenant support, while collaborating across product and frontend teams in a remote, global environment.

The role emphasizes leadership in architecture, APIs, and operational excellence, with a focus on high-availability environments and customer-focused