Overview
In this role, you will help shape Grafana Alerting at scale, working on backend systems that power alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation for Grafana Cloud and on-premise deployments. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust features while contributing to open-source projects. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, and a strong ownership mindset in a remote, globe-spanning team. You’ll engage in on-call rotations and mentor others, driving impact across distributed systems and customer-focused outcomes.
Leistungen / Benefits
- RSUs
- 100% remote
- 30 days annual leave with Grafana Shutdown Days
- global culture and growth opportunities
- open communication and autonomy
- career growth pathways
Verantwortungsbereiche
- Influence roadmap and personal career objectives
- Deliver new features with iterative improvements based on results
- Own and operate critical systems ensuring reliability and availability
- Design, build, and maintain distributed alerting infrastructure
- Contribute to open-source projects beyond your team’s scope
- Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of services
- Mentor teammates and engage in design discussions
- Learn the cloud product and codebase of a large distributed system
- Communicate effectively in a remote-first environment
Zentrale Anforderungen
- Motivated self-starter with bias toward action
- Customer-focused mindset
- Passion for intuitive products that fit user needs
- Ability to break complex challenges into modular solutions with MVPs
- Strong collaboration and communication in a remote setup
- Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred)
- Experience delivering projects from requirements to shipping to customers
- Experience with cloud-based software or systems engineering
- Experience writing clean, robust, maintainable software
- collaboration
- communication
- autonomy
- Go (primary)
- Python / Java / C++ / Rust (familiarity acceptable)
- distributed systems design
Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | Germany | Remote in Bonn Arbeitgeber: Grafana Labs
Grafana ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der eine offene und kollaborative Kultur fördert, in der autonome, datengestützte Entscheidungen geschätzt werden. Mit einem Remote-First-Ansatz und einem globalen Team bietet das Unternehmen nicht nur 30 Tage Jahresurlaub und Equity-Boni, sondern auch die Möglichkeit, an bedeutenden AI-Projekten zu arbeiten, die einen echten Einfluss auf die Produktentwicklung haben. Mitarbeiter haben die Chance, sich kontinuierlich weiterzuentwickeln und ihre Fähigkeiten in einem dynamischen Umfeld auszubauen.
