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Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Backend Services | US | Remote

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company powering observability for millions of users and thousands of customers worldwide. The Staff Backend Engineer will join the Grafana Backend Services squad to own and operate API components and orchestration infrastructure that deliver Grafana to both Cloud and self-managed customers.

Skills

  • Strong backend development experience, ideally using Go
  • Proficiency with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, SQLite)
  • Experience shipping projects end-to-end from requirements to production
  • Familiarity with operating services and being on-call
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable, and performant software
  • Experience mentoring engineers and working in asynchronous, remote teams
  • Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD practices

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and iterate on backend features and APIs for Grafana services
  • Author and review design documents and proposals for upcoming work
  • Contribute to and collaborate on open-source projects related to the platform
  • Operate and take ownership of services, including participating in on-call rotations
  • Mentor and support engineers across the squad and participate in design discussions
  • Collaborate with other squads across the Grafana Division to align roadmaps and delivery
  • Improve developer productivity through tooling, automation, and pragmatic AI-assisted workflows

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience preferred
  • Relevant demonstrable experience can substitute for formal degree requirements

Benefits

  • 100% remote, distributed team with global culture
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for employee ownership
  • Company-funded access and allowance for AI coding assistants and frontier models
  • 30 days annual leave (includes company shutdown days)
  • In-person onboarding events to meet your cohort
  • Transparent communication, career growth pathways, and approachable leadership
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Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, Loki, Mimir and Tempo, the leading open source software for visualizing operational data.

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Growth & Learning
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BENEFITS & PERKS
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$174,986/yr - $209,983/yr
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Full-time, remote
DATE POSTED
March 26, 2026
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