Job Overview
Location
United States (Remote)
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Backend Engineer
Date Posted
May 6, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Grafana App Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in transforming Grafana into a scalable, multi-tenant observability platform that powers both open-source and proprietary applications. Your work will directly impact how millions of users and thousands of enterprises monitor and understand their systems, from climate science to financial trading.
- • Day to day, you will code new backend features in Go, enhance system reliability and observability, author and review technical design documents, contribute to product roadmap planning, mentor fellow engineers, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure platform stability and customer experience.
- • You will join Grafana Labs, a remote-first, open-source-driven company with over 20M global users and trusted by enterprises like Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay. The team values transparency, autonomy, and trust, operating with a strong engineering culture rooted in open-source collaboration and innovation.
- • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in distributed systems at scale, shape the future of observability platforms, gain influence over architectural decisions, and grow as a technical leader through mentorship and cross-functional collaboration—all while working with cutting-edge AI-assisted development tools supported by the company.
🎯 Requirements
- • Strong coding skills with operational experience in the software you’ve built
- • Experience working on SaaS platforms and handling distributed systems challenges (scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA)
- • Excellent communication skills, with clarity in writing and meetings, and ability to choose appropriate communication modes
- • Willingness to collaborate across teams, align with stakeholder needs, and incorporate feedback transparently
- • Pragmatic mindset: prioritizing progress over perfection, comfortable with ambiguity
- • Familiarity with or enthusiasm to learn Golang (used on the backend)
🏖️ Benefits
- • 100% remote work with a global, collaborative culture
- • Access to company-funded AI coding assistants and frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3 Pro)
- • 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 reserved Grafana Shutdown Days
- • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of compensation
- • In-person onboarding events to connect with fellow new hires
- • Transparent leadership, innovation-driven environment, and career growth pathways
Skills & Technologies
About Raintank Inc.
Raintank Inc., operating as Grafana Labs, is the open-source company behind the Grafana observability platform. It develops and maintains Grafana dashboards, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, Mimir for metrics, and Grafana Cloud services, providing scalable monitoring and analytics for DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams worldwide. Grafana Labs supports on-prem and SaaS deployments with enterprise-grade features and commercial support.
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