Staff Backend Engineer

The Opportunity

Grafana Enterprise is a composable observability platform focused on large-scale operators with security and regulatory requirements who need to self-operate their observability solutions. Grafana Enterprise features are also part of Grafana Cloud service, an integrated suite of observability applications offered as a service. It allows customers to leverage open source observability software including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo without the overhead of installing, maintaining, and scaling their own observability stack.

The Grafana Enterprise team is a diverse team of expert technologists working remotely from around the globe. The team focuses on innovative solutions to large-scale customer challenges and developing solutions that improve security, robustness, flexibility, multitenancy, and interoperability. We work across the larger Grafana Labs organization and directly with external customers, including major cloud service providers and global enterprises running observability and build infrastructure at massive scale.

We are looking for experienced software engineers who are passionate about distributed systems and building reliable, scalable backend infrastructure to join our growing team. Our backend is Go, and we build tools for people operating some of the world's largest observability and software delivery stacks.

What You'll Be Doing

• Earning the trust of large-scale operator customers to further Grafana's philosophy of data accessibility and meet clear business objectives
• Designing and leading the development of backend services, distributed systems, and enterprise features at scale
• Driving continuous improvement of engineering culture through words and actions
• Driving projects from initial ideation through the development lifecycle to production
• Contributing to the scalability, reliability, security, and multi-tenancy of the Grafana platform
• Owning the operational health of the platform by participating in weekday and weekend on-call rotations
• Hiring and developing the best engineers to build the future of Grafana
• Developing your skills as a thought leader to drive continuous improvement of engineering and operational practices across Grafana Labs
• Working effectively in a remote-first environment with strong teamwork and excellent written and interpersonal communication skills

We invest heavily in developer productivity, including access to modern AI coding assistants and frontier models as part of your daily workflow.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• You work well as a communicative member of a team of engineering professionals
• You earn trust by saying what you mean and doing what you say
• You are customer focused and attuned to the needs of large-scale operators who rely on Grafana as critical infrastructure