Staff Software Engineer - Remote, Scale Alerting & Cloud

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 108,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

30 days annual leave

In-person onboarding

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a backend-focused engineer to join the Grafana Alerting squad, working remotely with a global team. You will help build scalable alerting infrastructure, contribute to open-source projects, and collaborate with Cloud and Grafana Cloud teams to deliver reliable, scalable features.

You’ll design, implement, and operate critical systems, participate in on-call rotations, mentor teammates, and advance a career path in a fully remote, remote-first culture.

Qualifications

• Strong backend experience with distributed systems and cloud-scale services.
• Ability to work in a remote-first, collaborative environment across time zones.
• Self-starter with a bias toward action and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Influence roadmap and personal career objectives.
• Deliver new features and iterate based on results.
• Drive projects from ideation to production and on-call ownership.
• Contribute to open-source projects and other teams as needed.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain reliable, scalable systems.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C++

Rust

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a backend-focused engineer to join the Grafana Alerting squad, working remotely with a global team. You will help build scalable alerting infrastructure, contribute to open-source projects, and collaborate with Cloud and Grafana Cloud teams to deliver reliable, scalable features.

You’ll design, implement, and operate critical systems, participate in on-call rotations, mentor teammates, and advance a career path in a fully remote, remote-first culture.