Staff Software Backend Engineer - Remote

Grafana Cloud is a composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana, allowing customers to use open-source observability software without installing, maintaining, and scaling their own observability stack
The Databases team owns Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles. These open-source databases are also offered as a Grafana Cloud service and as an on-premise solution. Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning their reliability, performance, and availability
Drive projects from initial ideation through to operations once they are in customers’ hands
Contribute to open-source projects, including projects outside your team’s direct scope
Build your skills by deepening your understanding of the cloud product and customers, and learning the codebase of a large distributed system
The engineering organisation is largely remote and uses video calls to provide guidance and meet regularly;
Vacation: Balance is key. Our team enjoys 30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. Healthcare: We’re proud to provide health coverage or stipends for our colleagues in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, and India
Retirement planning: We make employer contributions into the pension pots of our team members in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany
On top of a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend, Grafanistas have thousands of on-demand courses at their fingertips to help them grow professionally. Want to attend a conference or training? Vast majority of our roles are fully remote, focused on hiring the best talent and allowing you to perform from the comfort of your home. If you fancy a change of scene, we’ll also reimburse you up to $175 a month for a personal co-working space
Global Employee Assistance Program: Paid parental leave: Grafana offers paid parental leave to all eligible new parents. This offers Grafanistas time to bond with and care for their children in the first year after birth or adoption
You have experience writing clean, robust, performant software that others can maintain easily
You have some experience delivering projects from gathering requirements and brainstorming ideas through to shipping a product to customers, working in a self-driven way
You can take on complex challenges and break them down into short feedback loops: analyse, design, and build modular solutions;
gather data and feedback;
You have solid experience with at least one programming language.
Familiarity with Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, or a similar language translates well
You have some experience developing software that runs in the cloud or experience with systems engineering
You communicate and collaborate effectively with teammates in a fully remote setup
You are customer-focused and passionate about creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
You have used Grafana or Prometheus in an operational role, including on-call work, or in a hobby or homelab project
You have experience writing low-level code for databases, storage layers, or query engines