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Grafana Labs supports organizations’ monitoring, visualization and observability goals. 950,000+ active installations

Staff Backend Engineer – Adaptive Telemetry, Databases

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 501-1,000Since 2014H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

5 days ago

Salary

$175.0K - $210.0K / year

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor Degree3 yrs expEnglishCloudDistributed Systems

Job Description

Staff Backend Engineer – Adaptive Telemetry, Databases

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
  • COVID time off (if applicable)

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