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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend Engineers - **Company:** Grafana Labs - **Location:** East Coast of the United States, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $210,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Code Review, Databases, Continuous Delivery, Dependency Injection, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Protocol Buffers, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Query Optimization, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Datadog, Data Logging, ReactJS, Grafana, Caching, Backend, Kubernetes, Data Management, Front End Software Development, OPUS (Software), GPT, Dynatrace - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.workingnomads.com/job/go/1770393/ ## About the Role * Deep professional experience writing production services, from ideation through to production operations at scale * Strong distributed systems fundamentals: replication, consistency models, partitioning, fault tolerance, and the trade-offs that come with operating at scale * Demonstrated experience designing and operating systems for large-scale, high-traffic, high-availability, or multi-tenant environments, ideally in the context of infrastructure, observability, or software delivery platforms * Professional experience building and consuming gRPC/protobuf APIs and designing clean service contracts across service boundaries * Strong database skills, such as PostgreSQL and/or MySQL; including schema design, query optimisation, and schema migrations at scale * Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems and build tooling, designing, operating, or integrating with continuous delivery pipelines that serve large engineering organisations or external operators at scale * Comfort working with Kubernetes and containerised deployment environments, including patterns for operating stateful workloads and multi-tenant clusters * Experience with observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing * Familiarity with dependency injection patterns (e.g., Google Wire) and clean, testable service architecture What are your 'nice to have' technical competencies? * Experience with TypeScript and React for contributing to frontend features and collaborating closely with frontend engineers * Experience with Grafana's LGTM+ observability stack (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope, Alloy) * Prior experience at or building for large-scale cloud service providers, IaaS providers, or global enterprises with demanding SLA requirements * Experience designing or operating large-scale build infrastructure artifact registries, distributed build caches, hermetic build systems (e.g., Bazel), or developer platform tooling ## Description * Earning the trust of our large-scale operator customers to further Grafana's 'big tent' philosophy of data accessibility and to meet clear business objectives * Designing and leading the development of backend services, distributed systems, and enterprise features at scale * Driving continuous improvement of our engineering culture through words and actions * Driving projects from initial ideation through the development lifecycle to production * Contributing to the scalability, reliability, security, and multi-tenancy of the Grafana platform trusted by some of the world's largest operators * Owning the operational health of our platform by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations. (Yes, we prioritize ops load reduction.) * Hiring and developing the best engineers to build the future of Grafana * Developing your skills as a thought leader to drive continuous improvement of engineering and operational practices across Grafana Labs * As we are remote-first, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so strong teamwork and excellent written and interpersonal communication skills are a must. We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (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 4.7, Gemini 3 Pro). What Makes You a Great Fit: * You work well as a communicative member of a team of engineering professionals. * You earn trust by saying what you mean and doing what you say. * You are customer focused and especially attuned to the needs of large-scale operators who rely on Grafana as critical infrastructure. You start with their needs and work backwards. * You insist on the highest standards and work to develop the skills and knowledge of your fellow team members. * You take on complex distributed systems challenges, break them down into digestible problems, and leverage your team and organization to deliver. * You design modular solutions, deliver minimum loveable products, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively., As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will design and build the backend systems powering Grafana Enterprise - the platform trusted by the world's largest operators to run their observability and software delivery infrastructure. * Hiring and developing the best engineers we can to deliver the future of Observability. * Architecting and implementing distributed backend services in Go, with a focus on correctness, observability, and performance at scale * Designing APIs and service contracts used by thousands of enterprise operators and cloud service providers * Collaborating with Product and UX to shape features and partnering with frontend engineers to ship complete, end-to-end solutions * Driving scalability and reliability improvements that matter to large-scale operators running Grafana in regulated, high-availability environments * Engaging directly with large enterprise customers and cloud service providers to understand their requirements and translate them into robust engineering solutions * Advocating for our customers at every stage of the development lifecycle ## Related Videos - [ Evaluating AI models for code comprehension](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1462-evaluating-ai-models-for-code-comprehension) - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [HTTP headers that make your website go faster](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1676-http-headers-that-make-your-website-go-faster) - [Meet Your New BFF: Backend to Frontend without the Duct Tape](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/682-meet-your-new-bff-backend-to-frontend-without-the-duct-tape) - [Streaming AI Responses in Real-Time with SSE in Next.js & NestJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1630-streaming-ai-responses-in-real-time-with-sse-in-next-js-nestjs) - [Event based cache invalidation in GraphQL](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/433-event-based-cache-invalidation-in-graphql) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [What’s the Difference Between Frontend and Backend Development?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/240-what-s-the-difference-between-frontend-and-backend-development) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [20 Essential Tools For Backend Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/218-20-essential-tools-for-backend-development) - [The Best Software Developer Blogs to Read](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/156-the-best-software-developer-blogs-to-read)