Grafana Labs supports organizations’ monitoring, visualization and observability goals. 950,000+ active installations
Staff Backend Engineer – Adaptive Telemetry
Location
United States
Posted
55 days ago
Salary
$175.0K - $210.0K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Backend Engineer – Adaptive Telemetry
Grafana Labs
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap. • 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. • Improve observability, automation and operational readiness. • Align stakeholders and remove blockers. • Mentor and grow engineering talent. • Represent engineering internally and externally.
Job Requirements
- Proven delivery of large distributed systems.
- Strong systems-design instincts.
- Hands-on cloud and platform experience.
- Reliability and performance ownership.
- Excellent coding and design skills.
- Comfort with AI-assisted development.
- Experience with messaging and telemetry.
- Influence without authority.
- Strong communicator.
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus (if applicable)
- 30 days of annual leave
- 3 days of additional leave for Grafana Shutdown Days
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