Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana IRM (Remote, EMEA)

Job Description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join the Grafana IRM squad. This is a remote opportunity for candidates in the EMEA time zones. The Grafana IRM squad manages business-critical services that assist Grafana and numerous global organizations in responding to incidents. The team's mission is to streamline incident detection, response, and learning with minimal effort. The role involves working within frontend, backend, and mobile functional squads, with projects often spanning across these functions. The domain is extensive and continuously evolving, emphasizing a unified experience, automation, integration, and Observability Native principles. The team is customer-focused, aiming to deliver an excellent user experience through efficient usage and a high degree of automation and integration with third-party systems.

The Staff Backend Engineer will influence the roadmap and career objectives, collaborate with the team to deliver new features, and iterate based on results. They will drive projects from ideation to operations, contribute to open-source projects, and design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability. The role includes participating in on-call rotations, mentoring team members, and engaging in design discussions.

What this role involves:

• Influencing the roadmap and career objectives.
• Delivering new features and iterating based on results.
• Driving projects from ideation to operations.
• Contributing to open-source projects.
• Designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical systems.
• Participating in on-call rotations.
• Mentoring team members and engaging in design discussions.

Requirements:

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go and Python preferred).
• Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering to product shipping.
• Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering.
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software.

What this role offers:

• Opportunity to work on business-critical services.
• Remote work environment.
• Contribution to open-source projects.
• Mentoring and support from team members.
• Equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits.