Staff Backend Engineer Remote Open-Source Observability

Grafanalabs; United States; Remote; USD 132,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus (if applicable)

Job summary

Grafana Labs is hiring for a role focused on building and operating scalable, reliable systems within Grafana Cloud. You will influence roadmaps across Go services, contribute to open-source components, and participate in on-call rotations while mentoring teammates in a collaborative, remote-first culture.

Ideal candidates have strong Go experience, familiarity with Kubernetes, and a passion for cloud-native distributed systems, with openness to other languages and tools as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering projects from idea to shipping product.
• Cloud or systems engineering experience preferred.
• Clean, robust, maintainable code writing.
• Familiarity with Go; others are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems.
• Influence roadmap and personal career objectives.
• Deliver new features and iterate based on results.
• Drive projects from ideation to production.
• Contribute to open-source projects beyond your team.
• Participate in on-call rotations and own services.
• Mentor teammates and engage in design discussions.
• Learn new skills by understanding Grafana Cloud and customer codebase.

Skills

Go

Python

C

C++

Rust

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Grafana Labs is hiring for a role focused on building and operating scalable, reliable systems within Grafana Cloud. You will influence roadmaps across Go services, contribute to open-source components, and participate in on-call rotations while mentoring teammates in a collaborative, remote-first culture.

Ideal candidates have strong Go experience, familiarity with Kubernetes, and a passion for cloud-native distributed systems, with openness to other languages and tools as needed.