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Staff Backend Engineer in USA

Grafana
Full time
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USA
08/19/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Influence the team roadmap and pursue individual career objectives.
Deliver new features collaboratively and iterate based on results and feedback.
Drive projects from initial concept through implementation, operations, and customer delivery.
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems with ownership of reliability, performance, and availability.
Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations and own the services operated by the team.
Write and review pull requests and design documents.
Shepherd automated release rollouts and implement performance and reliability improvements identified through production operations.
Support teammates, participate in design discussions, and contribute to projects beyond the immediate team scope.
Develop a deeper understanding of Grafana Cloud, customers, and the codebase of a large distributed system.

Requirements

Solid experience with at least one programming language, preferably Go or alternatively Python, C, C++, Rust, or a similar language.
Experience leading and delivering projects from requirements gathering and ideation through customer delivery.
Experience developing cloud software or working in systems engineering.
Experience participating in on-call rotations and following the DevOps model.
Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software.
Familiarity with observability systems and using metrics, logs, and traces for debugging.
Comfort with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
Experience and comfort developing with LLMs such as Claude and Codex in daily work.
Experience with Kubernetes is a bonus.
Experience with queue systems such as the Kafka protocol is a bonus.
Experience using Grafana and Prometheus in operational or personal projects is a bonus.
Familiarity with infrastructure as code is a bonus.
Self-directed, pragmatic, customer-focused, collaborative, and effective in a fully remote environment.

Benefits

100% remote position for candidates in USA time zones.
In-person onboarding is provided.
30 days of annual leave per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
Equity, bonus if applicable, and other benefits are included.
Career growth pathways and a company-funded budget for AI coding assistant usage are provided.

Salary: $175k - $210k/yr

Grafana

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organiz...

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