Staff Backend Engineer – Adaptive Telemetry, Databases

Grafana Labs

Staff Backend Engineer focusing on adaptive telemetry and databases for Grafana Labs. Responsible for technical strategy, project delivery, and system reliability.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaLead💰 CA$186,368 - CA$223,642 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive technical strategy and roadmap.
Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects.
Own architecture, reliability, performance and cost for critical systems.
Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response.
Improve observability, automation and operational readiness.
Align stakeholders and remove blockers.
Mentor and grow engineering talent.
Represent engineering internally and externally.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven delivery of large distributed systems.
Strong systems-design instincts.
Hands-on cloud and platform experience.
Reliability and performance ownership.
Excellent coding and design skills.
Comfort with AI-assisted development.
Experience with messaging and telemetry.
Influence without authority.
Strong communicator.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Bonus (if applicable)
30 days annual leave
3 days of annual leave entitlement reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
Access to modern AI coding assistants

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Hard Skills & Tools

Systems DesignCoding SkillsAI-Assisted DevelopmentMessaging ExperienceTelemetry Experience

Soft Skills

MentoringInfluencing Without Authority