Grafana

Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Alerting | UK | Remote

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5 days ago
Remote, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Influence the roadmap and contribute to career and product objectives.
  • Deliver new features and iteratively improve them using customer and operational feedback.
  • Drive projects from initial ideation through deployment and ongoing operations.
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical distributed systems with ownership of reliability, performance, and availability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and own the services operated by the team.
  • Contribute to open-source projects beyond the immediate team’s scope.
  • Mentor teammates, participate in design discussions, and collaborate in a remote environment.

Requirements

  • Solid experience with at least one programming language; Grafana primarily uses Go, while Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar experience is also relevant.
  • Some experience delivering projects from requirements gathering and ideation through shipping to customers.
  • Some experience developing cloud software or working in systems engineering.
  • Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software.
  • Customer focus, pragmatic problem-solving ability, self-direction, collaboration, and strong communication skills.

Benefits

  • Remote opportunity for applicants in the UK within a 100% remote global company.
  • Compensation includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
  • In-person onboarding is provided.
  • Career growth pathways, transparent communication, empowered teams, and an open-source 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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