Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | US | Remote

Overview

Staff Backend Engineer for Grafana Enterprise, building backend systems for large-scale operators’ observability and software delivery infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Design and lead development of backend services and distributed systems for enterprise features at scale.
• Drive projects from ideation through development lifecycle to production.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability, security, and multi-tenancy.
• Own operational health by participating in on-call rotations (weekday 12h x 5d and separate weekend 24h x 2d).
• Architect and implement distributed backend services in Go with correctness, observability, and performance in mind.
• Design APIs and service contracts used by enterprise operators and cloud service providers.

What you'll need

• Deep professional experience writing production services from ideation through production operations at scale.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals (e.g., replication, consistency models, partitioning, fault tolerance, trade-offs).
• Experience designing and operating large-scale, high-traffic, high-availability, or multi-tenant systems.
• Professional experience building and consuming gRPC/protobuf APIs and designing clean service contracts.
• Strong database skills such as PostgreSQL and/or MySQL, including schema design and migrations at scale.
• Comfort working with Kubernetes and containerized deployment environments.
• Experience with observability tooling including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing.
• Familiarity with dependency injection patterns (e.g., Google Wire) and clean, testable service architecture.