Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | US | Remote

United States (Remote) · Remote · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal

$174,986 – $209,983

Listed on Grafana Labs’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role leads backend systems development for Grafana Enterprise, designing and operating distributed services that power observability infrastructure for the world's largest organizations. It suits experienced engineers who thrive on complex systems challenges, customer collaboration, and building teams while maintaining high standards for reliability and scale.

Our summary, not Grafana Labs’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

Deep professional experience building production services from ideation through operations at scale
Strong distributed systems fundamentals including replication, consistency models, partitioning, and fault tolerance
Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale, high-traffic, high-availability, or multi-tenant systems
Professional experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers APIs
Strong database skills with PostgreSQL or MySQL including schema design and query optimization
Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems and build tooling
Comfort with Kubernetes and containerized deployments including stateful and multi-tenant patterns
Experience with observability tooling like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and distributed tracing
Familiarity with dependency injection patterns and clean service architecture
Ability to hire and develop engineering talent
Strong teamwork and communication skills, especially in remote environments

Nice to have

TypeScript and React experience for frontend collaboration
Experience with Grafana's LGTM+ stack (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope, Alloy)
Prior experience at large-scale cloud providers or global enterprises with demanding SLA requirements
Experience designing or operating large-scale build infrastructure, artifact registries, or developer platform tooling