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# Staff Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Grafana Labs
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £103,958.0 - £124,750.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Open Source Technology, Grafana
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-backend-engineer-grafana-alerting-uk-remote-grafana-labs-2-8707934

## About the Role

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must., * You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action

 * You are customer focused
 * We build everything with our users in mind.
 * You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs
 * Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
 * Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You'll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
 * Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
 * Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer's hands in a self-driven way
 * Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
 * Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

## Description

* Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
 * Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
 * Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
 * Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team's scope
 * Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
 * 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
 * Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system