Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Grafana Backend Services

• Work with your team to deliver new functionality, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Contribute to and review design documents for upcoming features.
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects beyond your teams direct scope.
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your career objectives.
• Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you run.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team.
• Share ideas and knowledge across a wide range of technical perspectives.
• Work closely with other squads in the Grafana Division.

Technologies:

• AI
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• Grafana
• Support
• Kubernetes
• MySQL
• Prometheus
• SQLite
• Salesforce
• microservices
• API
• HTTP
• Security

• We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Grafana Backend Services squad.
• You have solid backend development experience, ideally with Go.
• You have a good understanding of storage solutions, especially relational databases such as MySQL, SQLite, and Postgres.
• You care deeply about developer and user experience, and the quality of the products you work on.
• You have experience delivering projects from gathering requirements and brainstorming ideas through to shipping a product to customers in a self-driven way.
• You have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easy for others to maintain.
• You have experience mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative, asynchronous environment.
• You enjoy working on complex solutions and can break down challenges into modular, iterative delivery.
• Bonus: experience with open-source software or commercial open-source companies.
• Bonus: experience working with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Bonus: experience with CI/CD, DevOps, or Developer Efficiency work streams.
• Bonus: experience using Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles.
• Bonus: familiarity with on-call duties and operations/SRE tasks.
• Bonus: exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn.

We are Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, founded on open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Our Grafana Cloud platform is fully managed, flexible, and built for scale, helping organizations understand and act on their data with useful AI. We support more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. This role is available for candidates located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland, and Sweden. We invest heavily in developer productivity, offer modern AI coding assistants and frontier models, and provide equity, bonus where applicable, and other benefits. We offer a global remote culture, transparent communication, career growth pathways, 30 days of annual leave with shutdown days, in-person onboarding, and an equal opportunity workplace. last updated 28 week of 2026