Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting

Grafana Labs
United Kingdom
Workplace: RemoteFull timeGBP 103,958 - 124,750Function: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Mentorship","Customer focus","Self-starter"]

Build and maintain critical backend systems for Grafana Alerting, helping users manage alerts on-prem and at massive scale in cloud. Work with a remote, backend-focused team to deliver new features, drive projects from ideation through operations, and ensure reliability, performance, and availability. Contribute to distributed alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation, take part in on-call, and mentor teammates while collaborating across Grafana Cloud and the wider open-source project ecosystem.

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Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
2 months ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting

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Job Summary

Build and maintain critical backend systems for Grafana Alerting, helping users manage alerts on-prem and at massive scale in cloud. Work with a remote, backend-focused team to deliver new features, drive projects from ideation through operations, and ensure reliability, performance, and availability. Contribute to distributed alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation, take part in on-call, and mentor teammates while collaborating across Grafana Cloud and the wider open-source project ecosystem.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, operate, and maintain backend alerting systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability.
  • •Drive distributed systems for alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation at large production scale.
  • •Deliver new features with your team and iterate based on results to improve outcomes.
  • •Take part in on-call rotations and actively own the services you run.
  • •Mentor team members and contribute to design discussions while participating in open-source collaboration.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 103,958 - 124,750
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityRemote WorkPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Solid experience with at least one programming language; Go is used, and Python, Java, C++, C++, or Rust familiarity translates well.
  • •Experience developing clean, robust, performant software that others can maintain.
  • •Some experience delivering projects end-to-end from requirements and ideation through shipping to customers.
  • •Some experience with developing software that runs in the cloud or experience with systems engineering.
  • •Be collaborative and communicate well in a fully remote setup, with the ability to take on complex challenges and iterate quickly.
Experience:Open sourceCloudDistributed systems
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationMentorshipCustomer focusSelf-starter
Tech Stack:GoPythonJavaC++RustPrometheusGrafanaGrafana Cloud

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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