Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform | US | Remote
About The Position
Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their Grafana App Platform team. This role is crucial for evolving Grafana's core architecture to be fully multi-tenant and scalable, serving as a robust platform for opinionated Cloud apps. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with SaaS platforms at scale and will be instrumental in refactoring Grafana to be simpler and standardized. This position requires a strong focus on planning and safely rolling out changes to avoid service disruptions, given Grafana's widespread use across various platforms and user types. The role is 100% remote, with a focus on candidates in the US and Canada.
Requirements
- Strong coding skills and operational experience; you were responsible for operating the software you have built.
- Worked on a SaaS platform and dealt with common distributed systems problems (e.g. scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA, …)
- Excellent communication skills. You can express your ideas with great clarity in writing and during meetings. You know when to pick which mode of communication.
- Willing to work across teams. Your work has to be aligned with the needs of other squads and external stakeholders. You make your plans transparent, bring stakeholders on board, and are open to feedback and suggestions.
- Pragmatic; you prioritize progress over perfection; you can handle ambiguity.
- Familiarity with Golang or excitement to learn the language.
Responsibilities
- Coding new features, enhancing the operational experience of the systems you develop, and iteratively improving them based on production insights
- Authoring, contributing to and reviewing design documents
- Taking an active role in shaping the roadmap
- Mentoring and supporting other team members and collaborating with different teams across the organization
- Owning the experience of our customers by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and a separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations.
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 30 days of global annual leave per annum
- 3 Grafana Shutdown Days
- Access to modern AI coding assistants with a company-funded usage budget
- Access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3 Pro)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
