Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting

Grafana Labs
Spain
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 94,025 - 112,830 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Mentorship","Collaboration","Communication","Self-direction","Customer focus"]

Build and operate backend systems for Grafana Alerting, scaling alert ingestion, evaluation, and delivery for both Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts. Work with the Alerting team and customer/Grafana Cloud stakeholders to ship features from ideation through production operations, own reliability and performance, and participate in on-call rotations. Contribute to Grafana’s open-source ecosystem, mentor teammates, and collaborate in a remote-first environment using a large distributed codebase.

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Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
2 months ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting

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Job Summary

Build and operate backend systems for Grafana Alerting, scaling alert ingestion, evaluation, and delivery for both Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts. Work with the Alerting team and customer/Grafana Cloud stakeholders to ship features from ideation through production operations, own reliability and performance, and participate in on-call rotations. Contribute to Grafana’s open-source ecosystem, mentor teammates, and collaborate in a remote-first environment using a large distributed codebase.
Location: Spain
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Influence the Alerting roadmap and deliver new features with iterative improvement from results.
  • •Design, build, operate, and maintain critical backend systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability.
  • •Drive projects from ideation through operations once delivered to customers.
  • •Contribute to Grafana’s open-source culture by collaborating beyond the immediate team scope.
  • •Participate in on-call rotations and mentor teammates through design discussions and collaboration.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 94,025 - 112,830 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkRsusPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Solid experience with at least one programming language (Grafana uses Go; familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar is a plus).
  • •Experience writing clean, robust, performant software that is maintainable by others.
  • •Some experience delivering projects end-to-end from requirements and ideation through shipping.
  • •Some experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering.
  • •Experience contributing to collaboration and communication in a fully remote setup, including design discussions and mentoring.
Experience:Open sourceObservabilityCloudDistributed systemsPrometheus
Skills:MentorshipCollaborationCommunicationSelf-directionCustomer focus
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoPythonJavaC++RustPrometheusGrafana

Company Brief

Grafana Labs
Develops open-source and commercial observability tools, including Grafana for metrics visualization, Loki for log aggregation, and Tempo for tracing, enabling organizations to monitor, analyze, and visualize system performance and telemetry data.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2014
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