Staff Backend Engineer, Grafana Enterprise at Grafana Labs (Canada)

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Design and operate Go backend services for Grafana Enterprise customers with demanding scale, security and regulatory requirements. This posting lists Canada as its remote location.

Grafana Labs

Location: Canada (Remote)
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Go

Role overview

Grafana Enterprise serves large operators who self-host observability systems under security and regulatory requirements. This staff engineer designs distributed backend services, APIs and enterprise features, working directly with customer and product teams. The employer lists the role as remote in the United States or Canada.

Responsibilities

Architect Go services and API contracts for large enterprise operators and cloud providers.
Improve platform scalability, reliability, security, multitenancy and performance.
Lead projects from idea through production, working with product, UX and frontend engineers.
Translate requirements from enterprise customers into robust technical solutions.
Mentor engineers, improve engineering practices and participate in weekday and weekend on-call rotations.

Qualifications

Deep experience designing, shipping and operating backend services at production scale.
Strength in distributed systems, Go, APIs and reliability or security concerns.
Ability to break complex operator needs into achievable, iterative engineering work.
Customer focus and effective remote written and verbal communication.
Experience leading technical work and supporting the development of other engineers.

Benefits

Grafana Labs describes remote work, stock units, in-person onboarding and a 30-day annual leave policy, subject to local law. Compensation ranges and additional benefits are country specific and appear on each employer posting.

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs develops Grafana Cloud and open-source observability tools for metrics, logs, traces and profiles. The company describes itself as remote first.