Senior Backend Engineer (Alerting)

Role Overview

Join Grafana Labs as a Senior Backend Engineer (Alerting) to help shape the product roadmap and deliver backend features end-to-end—from ideation to production operations. You’ll design, build, operate, and maintain critical backend systems, while mentoring and supporting other team members.

Responsibilities

• Influence and support development of the company/product roadmap.
• Collaborate with the team to deliver new backend features and iterate based on results.
• Drive projects from initial ideation through shipping and ongoing operations for customer use.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems.
• Mentor and support teammates.

Requirements

• Experience writing clean, robust, performant backend software that others can maintain.
• Solid experience with at least one programming language; Go is used, but similar languages are valued (e.g., Python, Java, C++, Rust).
• Ability to break down complex problems into modular solutions with short feedback loops; deliver MVPs, gather feedback/data, and iterate.
• Some experience building software that runs in the cloud or experience with systems engineering.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a fully remote environment.
• Customer-focused mindset and passion for building intuitive products.
• Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering and brainstorming to shipping.

Nice to Haves

• Experience specifically related to alerting or monitoring systems (implied by role focus).