Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | Canada | Remote

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, emphasizing open source and a collaborative culture. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to design and build backend systems for Grafana Enterprise, focusing on scalable and reliable infrastructure for large-scale operators.

Responsibilities:

• Earning the trust of our large-scale operator customers to further Grafana's "big tent" philosophy of data accessibility and to meet clear business objectives
• Designing and leading the development of backend services, distributed systems, and enterprise features at scale
• Driving continuous improvement of our engineering culture through words and actions
• Driving projects from initial ideation through the development lifecycle to production
• Contributing to the scalability, reliability, security, and multi-tenancy of the Grafana platform trusted by some of the world's largest operators
• Owning the operational health of our platform by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations. (Yes, we prioritize ops load reduction.)
• Hiring and developing the best engineers to build the future of Grafana
• Developing your skills as a thought leader to drive continuous improvement of engineering and operational practices across Grafana Labs
• As we are remote-first, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so strong teamwork and excellent written and interpersonal communication skills are a must
• Architecting and implementing distributed backend services in Go, with a focus on correctness, observability, and performance at scale
• Designing APIs and service contracts used by thousands of enterprise operators and cloud service providers
• Collaborating with Product and UX to shape features and partnering with frontend engineers to ship complete, end-to-end solutions
• Driving scalability and reliability improvements that matter to large-scale operators running Grafana in regulated, high-availability environments
• Engaging directly with large enterprise customers and cloud service providers to understand their requirements and translate them into robust engineering solutions
• Advocating for our customers at every stage of the development lifecycle