Staff Backend Engineer, Loki at Grafana Labs (Australia)

Role overview

Grafana’s databases team maintains Loki for logs alongside Mimir, Tempo and Pyroscope for other telemetry. These open-source systems also power Grafana Cloud and on-premises offerings. The role covers reliability, performance and feature delivery in a remote engineering team. The posting accepts candidates located in Australia or Singapore.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain critical Loki and cloud database services.
• Own service reliability, performance and availability, including participation in on-call rotations.
• Carry projects from requirements and design through release and operation.
• Use production feedback to improve features and contribute to the team roadmap.
• Mentor engineers, review designs and take part in open-source collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping robust production software in Go or another language such as Python, C, C++ or Rust.
• Cloud software or systems-engineering experience and the ability to break complex work into short iterations.
• Customer focus, initiative and clear communication in a fully remote team.
• Willingness to operate the services you build and participate in on-call.
• Database, storage, query-engine, Kubernetes or observability experience is useful, but presented as additional experience.

Technology in this role

• Python: Python C++ AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• C++: Python C++ AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• AWS: Python C++ AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• Azure: Python C++ AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• GCP: Python C++ AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• Kubernetes: Python C++ AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• Go: Python C++ AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• C: Python C++ AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes .
• Rust: Experience shipping robust production software in Go or another language such as Python, C, C++ or .
• CAN: Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, .
• Salesforce: Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana .
• Prometheus: It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability .
• Grafana: Grafana’s databases team maintains Loki for logs alongside Mimir, Tempo and Pyroscope for other .

Role-specific candidate guide

Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.

Understanding the scope. This Staff Backend Software Engineer - Loki | Australia | Remote position at Grafana Labs is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “Grafana’s databases team maintains Loki for logs alongside Mimir, Tempo and Pyroscope for other telemetry. These open-source systems also power Grafana Cloud and on-premises offerings. The role covers reliability,…” Read that statement together with the responsibilities below to understand the likely balance between delivery, coordination and technical decision-making. The role belongs to the software engineering area, but that label is only a guide to the work; the employer’s own requirements remain decisive. Before applying, check the original listing for reporting lines, product or team assignment, employment terms and any details that may have changed since this copy was checked. Where this page says a fact is not specified, treat it as an open question rather than an implied promise.

What the responsibilities signal. The posting specifically names “Design, build and maintain critical Loki and cloud database services.”; “Own service reliability, performance and availability, including participation in on-call rotations.”; “Carry projects from requirements and design through release and operation.”. For each duty, identify a project where you performed comparable work and be ready to describe the context, your own contribution, constraints, decisions, and measurable result. Explain how you moved from the initial need to implementation, review, release or operational follow-through, where those stages apply. If the work involved other teams or users, distinguish your decisions from the group’s contribution. Avoid presenting a technology keyword as proof by itself: connect it to the problem you solved, the scale or complexity involved, and what changed after your work. The source may contain additional duties; review it directly before preparing your application.

How to read the requirements. The listed qualifications include “Experience shipping robust production software in Go or another language such as Python, C, C++ or Rust.”; “Cloud software or systems-engineering experience and the ability to break complex work into short iterations.”; “Customer focus, initiative and clear communication in a fully remote team.”. Mark each requirement as demonstrated, adjacent experience or a genuine gap, then use a concise example for the first two categories. A strong example explains what you personally owned, how you made trade-offs, how you validated the result and what you learned. If the posting specifies years of experience, language ability, certifications, location or eligibility, address those facts plainly in your CV or.

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.

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