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Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases | USA | Remote

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about 2 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$175k - $210k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical strategy and roadmap for telemetry databases.
  • 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 efforts.
  • Improve observability, automation, and operational readiness.
  • Align stakeholders and remove blockers for project delivery.
  • Mentor and grow engineering talent within the team.
  • Represent engineering internally and externally.

Requirements

  • Proven delivery of large distributed systems with technical leadership.
  • Strong systems-design instincts with an understanding of tradeoffs.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and operational practices.
  • Ownership of reliability and performance metrics.
  • Excellent coding and design skills, preferably in Go or similar languages.
  • Comfort with AI-assisted development tools and practices.
  • Experience with messaging and telemetry systems.
  • Ability to influence without authority in a remote environment.
  • Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work with a global culture.
  • Opportunities for career growth and development.
  • Transparent communication and decision-making.
  • Access to modern AI coding assistants and tools.
  • 30 days of annual leave with Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • In-person onboarding for new employees.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaCC++GoGrafanaPrometheusPythonRust

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