Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise

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We are looking for candidates in the US and Canada., Our meetings tend to happen between 14:00 and 17:00 UTC.Full-TimeStaff
SalaryC$186k-C$224k per year
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Job Details

Required Skills
PostgreSQLKubernetesMySQLGogRPCPrometheusCI/CDDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • Deep professional experience writing production services from ideation to operations at scale.
  • Strong distributed systems fundamentals: replication, consistency models, partitioning, and fault tolerance.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and operating systems for high-traffic, high-availability, or multi-tenant environments.
  • Professional experience building and consuming gRPC/protobuf APIs.
  • Strong database skills including PostgreSQL and/or MySQL (schema design, query optimization, migrations).
  • Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems, build tooling, and continuous delivery pipelines.
  • Comfort working with Kubernetes and containerized deployment environments.
  • Experience with observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing).
  • Familiarity with dependency injection patterns such as Google Wire.
  • Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement distributed backend services in Go with a focus on correctness and performance at scale.
  • Design and lead the development of enterprise features and service contracts for large-scale operators.
  • Drive projects from initial ideation through the development lifecycle to production.
  • Own the operational health of the platform by participating in weekday and weekend on-call rotations.
  • Engage directly with large enterprise customers and cloud service providers to translate requirements into engineering solutions.
  • Mentor and develop engineers to build the future of Grafana.
  • Contribute to the scalability, reliability, security, and multi-tenancy of the Grafana platform.
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