Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry | USA | Remote

📋 Description

• • As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Adaptive Telemetry team at Grafana Labs, you will drive technical strategy and roadmap for critical observability systems that power Grafana Cloud, ensuring telemetry data is optimized for value and cost efficiency.
• • You will lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects, own architecture and reliability for mission-critical systems including Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope, define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident response, and mentor engineering talent while representing the team internally and externally.
• • Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with over 20M global users and 3,000+ enterprise customers, built on transparency, autonomy, and trust, where you’ll work on systems monitoring everything from beehives to climate change and used by NASA, Wimbledon, and Fortune 500 companies.
• • You will have the opportunity to shape the future of adaptive telemetry, influence product direction, grow as a technical leader, and work with cutting-edge AI-assisted development tools in a culture that values innovation, open-source roots, and career growth pathways.