Staff Backend Engineer (Alerting)

Role overview

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Backend Engineer (Alerting). You’ll partner with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to improve alert management, designing and operating critical backend systems in a remote-first environment.

Key missions

• Build and maintain distributed systems for alert ingestion and delivery.
• Influence the team’s roadmap and deliver new alerting features.
• Mentor teammates, contribute to design discussions, and collaborate across the team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and maintain core services.
• Support delivery end-to-end, from requirements gathering to shipping to customers.
• Break down complex problems into modular solutions and iterate based on feedback/data.

Requirements

• Experience writing clean, robust, performant backend software that others can maintain.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a fully remote setup.
• Customer-focused mindset.
• Solid experience with at least one programming language (the stack uses Go).
• Some experience delivering self-driven projects from requirements to production.
• Some experience with software that runs in the cloud and/or systems engineering.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Python, Java, C++, or Rust.
• Passion for building intuitive, customer-needs-driven products.
• Experience delivering MVPs and iterating with short feedback loops.