Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting

Grafana Labs
Germany
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 109,709 - 131,651Function: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Mentorship","Communication","Collaboration","Customer focus","Problem-solving"]

Build and operate Grafana Alerting backend systems that scale alert ingestion, evaluation, and delivery across on-prem and Grafana Cloud. Partner with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to unify alert setup for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts, and drive projects from ideation through operations. Own reliability, performance, and availability, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor teammates while contributing to open-source work.

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Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
2 months ago

Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting

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Job Summary

Build and operate Grafana Alerting backend systems that scale alert ingestion, evaluation, and delivery across on-prem and Grafana Cloud. Partner with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to unify alert setup for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts, and drive projects from ideation through operations. Own reliability, performance, and availability, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor teammates while contributing to open-source work.
Location: Germany
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Influence the alerting roadmap and deliver new backend features with iterative improvement.
  • •Drive projects from ideation through operations once released to customers.
  • •Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability.
  • •Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you run.
  • •Mentor teammates and collaborate in design discussions while contributing to open-source culture.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 109,709 - 131,651
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:RsusPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Solid experience with at least one programming language; Grafana uses Go, but Python, Java, C++, and Rust are also relevant.
  • •Experience writing clean, robust, performant software that others can maintain.
  • •Some experience delivering projects end-to-end, from requirements gathering through shipping to customers.
  • •Some experience developing software that runs in the cloud or systems engineering.
  • •Ability to mentor and support others, collaborate in remote teams, and communicate effectively.
Experience:Open sourceObservabilityCloud
Skills:MentorshipCommunicationCollaborationCustomer focusProblem-solving
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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