Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry| Canada | Remote

Grafana Labs

Canada
Base: cad 186,368 - cad 223,642; bonus/equity: equ...
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Drive technical strategy and roadmap
Lead end-to-end delivery of large projects
Own architecture, reliability, performance, and cost
** Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for their Adaptive Telemetry group, focusing on developing solutions that optimize telemetry data storage and management. This remote position targets candidates in Canadian time zones and emphasizes technical leadership, systems design, and the use of AI-assisted development tools. **

Job Summary

  • Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company with over 20 million users of its visualization tool, Grafana.
  • The Adaptive Telemetry group is responsible for developing solutions to control and optimize telemetry data, ensuring only valuable data is retained.
  • The company invests heavily in developer productivity, encouraging the use of modern AI coding assistants and offering access to frontier models.

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** Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for their Adaptive Telemetry group, focusing on developing solutions that optimize telemetry data storage and management. This remote position targets candidates in Canadian time zones and emphasizes technical leadership, systems design, and the use of AI-assisted development tools. **

Salary

Base: CAD 186,368 - CAD 223,642; Bonus/Equity: Equity, bonus (if applicable); Benefits: Listed on careers page

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Drive technical strategy and roadmap
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of large projects
  • Own architecture, reliability, performance, and cost
  • Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response
  • Improve observability, automation, and operational readiness
  • Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
  • Experience with messaging and telemetry systems

Nice-to-have

  • Customer focused with a passion for creating intuitive products
  • Strong systems-design instincts
  • Influence without authority in a remote-first environment
  • Strong communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Key Requirements

  • Proven delivery of large distributed systems
  • Hands-on cloud and platform experience
  • Reliability and performance ownership
  • Excellent coding and design skills (Go, Python/C/C++/Rust translate well)
  • Comfort with AI-assisted development
  • Experience with messaging and telemetry (e.g., Kafka, Prometheus/Grafana)

Work Rights

Candidates in Canadian time zones

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