Grafana

Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | Ireland | Remote

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2 months ago
Remote, IrelandStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical alerting systems while owning their reliability, performance, and availability.
  • Build and scale distributed systems for Prometheus-based alert ingestion and delivery and Grafana-managed alert evaluation.
  • Drive projects from initial ideation through delivery and ongoing operations for customers.
  • Work with teammates and customers to deliver features, evaluate results, and iterate on the product.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of operated services.
  • Mentor and support team members, contribute to design discussions, and collaborate across teams.
  • Contribute to open-source projects beyond the immediate team’s scope.

Requirements

  • Solid experience with at least one programming language; Grafana Labs uses Go, and familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar languages is also relevant.
  • 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.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills for effective work in a fully remote environment.
  • Customer focus, pragmatic problem solving, and a willingness to contribute to open-source projects are valued.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work from Ireland with a global remote culture
  • In-person onboarding
  • 30 days of annual leave per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • Career growth pathways and transparent communication

Tech Stack

C++GoGrafanaJavaPrometheusPythonRust

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About Grafana

1,001-5,000 employees

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions, while getting the visibility they need to run AI systems reliably and at scale. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,400+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital.