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# Backend Engineer, Grafana Backend Services

- **Company:** Grafana Labs
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Code Review, Relational Databases, Software Design Documents, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Open Source Technology, Cloud Services, SQLite, Grafana, Backend, OPUS (Software), GPT
- **Published:** August 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://es.trabajo.org/oferta-9000-3bf02264194df93803257e9825da5755

## About the Role

(your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups-always paired with strong code review and quality standards. You'll also have access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro). What Makes You a Great Fit - Have solid backend development experience, ideally with Go - Good understanding of storage solutions with an emphasis on relational databases like MySQL, SQLite, and Postgres - Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on - Have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming ideas to shipping a product to the customer's hands in a self-driven way - Have experience writing clean, robust, and performant
software that is easily maintained by others - Have experience with mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment - Enjoy working on complex solutions - Grafana is a highly technical solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows. - Can take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve tight learning loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively Bonus Points For - Experience with ope

## Description

tool, but also all the orchestration infrastructure required to deliver Grafana at the scale of our Cloud product. What You'll Be Doing - Work with your team to deliver new functionality, then use the results to iterate and improve - Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features - Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team's scope - Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your career objectives - Be a part of your team's on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you're running - Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team - Regularly sharing ideas and knowledge across a vast array of technical ideologies and mindsets - Working closely with the other squads in the Grafana Division We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow


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