Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting

Grafana Labs
Ireland
Workplace: RemoteFull timeEUR 117,600 - 141,120Function: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Self-starter","Customer focus","Collaboration","Communication","Pragmatism"]

Build and operate critical backend systems for Grafana Alerting, helping users manage alerts on-prem and at infinite scale in the cloud. Work with your remote team to deliver features, drive projects end-to-end, and own reliability, performance, and availability. Contribute to distributed alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation (including Prometheus-based alerts), mentor teammates, participate in design discussions, and uphold Grafana’s open-source culture.

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Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
2 months ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting

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Job Summary

Build and operate critical backend systems for Grafana Alerting, helping users manage alerts on-prem and at infinite scale in the cloud. Work with your remote team to deliver features, drive projects end-to-end, and own reliability, performance, and availability. Contribute to distributed alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation (including Prometheus-based alerts), mentor teammates, participate in design discussions, and uphold Grafana’s open-source culture.
Location: Ireland
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Influence the alerting roadmap and your own career objectives within the squad.
  • •Deliver new alerting features with your team and iterate based on results.
  • •Drive projects from ideation through operations once delivered to customers.
  • •Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability.
  • •Participate in on-call rotations, mentor team members, and collaborate across design discussions in a remote setup.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 117,600 - 141,120
Perks:RsusAnnual Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Solid experience with at least one programming language; Grafana uses Go, and familiarity with Python, Java, C++, or Rust is a strong match.
  • •Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is maintainable by others.
  • •Some experience delivering projects end-to-end, from gathering requirements through shipping a product to customers.
  • •Some experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering experience.
  • •Experience mentoring/supporting others and participating in design discussions in a collaborative team setting.
Experience:Open sourceObservabilityCloudDistributed systems
Skills:Self-starterCustomer focusCollaborationCommunicationPragmatism
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoPythonJavaC++Rust

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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