Backend Engineer

Grafana Labs

Backend Engineer working on observability systems at Grafana Labs. Contributing to open-source culture and critical system maintenance in a remote-first environment.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $127,651 - $153,180 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoPythonRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
Work with your team to deliver new features, iterating and improving based on results
Help your team drive projects from initial idea to operations
Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects
Build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability
Participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience with at least one programming language (Go is preferred, but Python, C, C++, Rust or similar translates well)
Some experience with delivering projects as a member of a larger team
Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
Some experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
Some familiarity with observability systems.

Benefits

Comp & perks

equity
bonus (if applicable)
30 days annual leave
Grafana Shutdown Days
home office setup allowance
professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoPythonCC++RustCloud computingDevOpssoftware developmentobservability systemssystems engineering

Soft Skills

collaborationproject managementcommunicationinfluencingteamworkproblem-solvingadaptabilityiterationreliabilityperformance