Grafana Labs supports organizations’ monitoring, visualization and observability goals. 950,000+ active installations
Backend Engineer – Platform – Stacks
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
6 days ago
Salary
£72K - £90K / year
Seniority
Junior
Job Description
Backend Engineer – Platform – Stacks
Grafana Labs
• The AppCore Stacks squad owns the systems that create, configure, reconcile, migrate, and operate Grafana Cloud stacks at scale. • Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems, including the SSS backend, to track desired stack state, detect and repair drift across stack templates, grafana.com state, Hosted Grafana, and actual customer stack configuration • Collaborate across SSS, grafana.com, and deployment configurations to ensure stack lifecycle workflows remain reliable, observable, and resilient • Improve operational efficiency by reducing deployment complexity (e.g., aiming for single PR regional SSS deployment) and contributing to the Stack Config Reconciliation project • Manage rollout mechanisms for provisioned plugins, dashboards, data sources, Grafana versions, release channels, and stack-level configuration • Support new region and cluster rollouts, including the operational paths required to bring stacks online safely in new Grafana Cloud regions • Improve incident response and recovery paths for stack misalignment, reconciliation failures, plugin rollout issues, and Hosted Grafana integration failures • Partner with Product, Hosted Grafana, Infrastructure, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads on customer-impacting stack lifecycle work • Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, OnCall improvements, and long-term simplification of stack operations • Help own the production behavior of the systems you build, including improving runbooks, dashboards, and recovery procedures.
Job Requirements
- You have at least 1 year of fully remote work experience
- You have some experience working on a SaaS platform and are familiar with common distributed systems concepts (e.g., scalability, multi-tenancy, HA).
- Have professional experience with Golang and be willing to work across both backend service and application code
- Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on
- Have some experience contributing to the delivery of projects, from initial brainstorming to shipping a product to the customer.
- You write clean, well-tested software that other engineers can understand, operate, and maintain
- Can take on well-defined tasks, break them down, and execute iteratively to deliver working solutions and gather feedback.
- You are willing to collaborate across teams and ensure your work is aligned with the needs of other squads and external stakeholders.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and exposure to infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
- Experience participating in blameless incident response and contributing to post-incident reviews.
Benefits
- 100% Remote, Global Culture
- Scaling Organization
- Transparent Communication
- Innovation-Driven
- Open Source Roots
- Empowered Teams
- Career Growth Pathways
- Approachable Leadership
- Passionate People
- In-Person onboarding
- Balance is Key - global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum
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