Grafana

Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Alerting | Spain | Remote

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5 days ago
Remote, SpainStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, operate, and maintain distributed systems for Grafana Alerting and SLOs.
  • Develop systems that scale alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation for Grafana- and Prometheus-based alerts.
  • Drive projects from ideation and requirements gathering through shipping, customer use, and ongoing operations.
  • Own system reliability, performance, availability, and participation in on-call rotations.
  • Collaborate with customers, Grafana Cloud teams, and fellow engineers on roadmap, design, and product improvements.
  • Contribute to Grafana open-source projects and mentor and support other team members.

Requirements

  • Solid experience with at least one programming language; Grafana uses Go, and Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar experience is transferable.
  • Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering and ideation through shipping to customers in a self-driven manner.
  • Experience developing software that runs in the cloud or experience with systems engineering.
  • Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software.
  • Ability to analyze complex challenges, design modular solutions, deliver iteratively, and use customer feedback to improve products.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills and the ability to work independently in a remote environment.
  • Customer focus, pragmatism, initiative, and interest in creating intuitive products.

Benefits

  • Remote-first, 100% remote work opportunity for applicants in Spain.
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) are included with all roles.
  • 30 days of annual leave per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
  • In-person onboarding for new employees.
  • Career growth pathways, transparent communication, and an open-source, high-trust culture.

Tech Stack

C++GoGrafanaJavaPrometheusPythonRust

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About Grafana

1,001-5,000 employees

Grafana Labs builds open-source observability tools and a managed SaaS, Grafana Cloud, used by engineering and SRE teams to monitor, visualize, and analyze telemetry. Its products include Grafana dashboards plus Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), and Mimir (metrics), offered as cloud subscriptions and enterprise software. Privately held and headquartered in New York, it serves customers such as Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce.

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