Staff Software Engineer - Platform, SysEng | USA | Remote

Grafana Labs

16h•$174,986 - $209,983•Remote

About The Position

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for their Platform SysEng squad. This role is focused on the maturity and scalability of the internal engineering platform, aiming to reduce new region build timelines to meet customer demands. The Platform Engineering group manages infrastructure for teams building tools like Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope. This is a remote opportunity, with a preference for applicants in USA time zones (EST + CST highly preferred). The company is 100% remote, with over 1,600 team members globally, and is backed by leading investors. Grafana Labs is founded on principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture.

Requirements

Proven delivery of large distributed systems.
Experience shipping and operating complex systems that span multiple teams, with clear evidence of technical leadership and impact.
Demonstrable experience in system design, with a deep understanding of tradeoffs around latency, consistency, availability, scaling, and cost.
Hands-on cloud and platform experience, with solid experience with cloud-native architectures (microservices, containers/Kubernetes, IaC) and the operational practices that keep them healthy.
Reliability and performance ownership.
Excellent coding and design skills.
Comfort with AI-assisted development; curiosity and comfort using AI-powered developer tools and practical experience folding them into a team’s workflow.
Influence without authority; ability to align cross-functional stakeholders, set priorities and drive outcomes in a remote-first environment.
Strong communicator; clear written and verbal communication that works across engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience with Go, Python, or Shell.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in or on open source, or other community-based projects.
Familiarity with Kubernetes scheduling and projects like Karpenter.
Terraform and/or Crossplane experience.
Experience with Tanka and/or Jsonnet.

Responsibilities

Focus on the maturity and scalability of the platform.
Work across engineering to reduce new region build timelines.
Manage infrastructure for teams building core Grafana Labs tools.
Take projects from conception to production.
Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system health.
Define SLOs/SLIs, do capacity planning, tune performance, and drive reliability work end-to-end.
Write clear, maintainable, well-tested code.
Lead technical designs.
Use modern AI coding assistants as part of the daily workflow.
Align cross-functional stakeholders, set priorities, and drive outcomes in a remote-first environment.
Communicate clearly in writing and verbally across engineers and non-technical stakeholders.