Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry | Germany | Remote
Grafana
14 days ago
Remote, Germany
Staff+
Responsibilities
- Drive technical strategy and roadmap.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects.
- Own architecture, reliability, performance, and cost for critical systems.
- Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response.
- Improve observability, automation, and operational readiness.
- Align stakeholders and remove blockers.
- Mentor and grow engineering talent.
- Represent engineering internally and externally.
Requirements
- Proven delivery of large distributed systems.
- Strong systems-design instincts.
- Hands-on cloud and platform experience.
- Reliability and performance ownership.
- Excellent coding and design skills.
- Comfort with AI-assisted development.
- Experience with messaging and telemetry.
- Ability to influence without authority.
- Strong communicator.
Benefits
- 100% Remote, Global Culture.
- Scaling Organization with meaningful work.
- Transparent Communication with regular updates.
- Innovation-Driven environment.
- Open Source Roots with community-driven values.
- Empowered Teams with a high trust culture.
- Defined Career Growth Pathways.
- Approachable Leadership.
- In-Person onboarding for new employees.
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaCC++GoGrafanaPrometheusPythonRust
Categories
BackendDevOps