Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry | Germany | Remote

Grafana Labs

Germany
Base: €106,000 - €127,000; bonus/equity: not speci...
Remote
Technical strategy and roadmap
End-to-end delivery of large projects
Architecture, reliability, performance, cost
Drive technical strategy and roadmap, prioritizing work that unlocks major product or platform improvements

Job Summary

  • Drive technical strategy and roadmap, prioritizing work that unlocks major product or platform improvements.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects, owning planning, design, execution, rollout and long-term operation.
  • Mentor and grow engineering talent by coaching senior and mid-level engineers, leading design reviews, and raising engineering standards.

Matching Summary

Drive technical strategy and roadmap, prioritizing work that unlocks major product or platform improvements.

Salary

Base: €106,000 - €127,000; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Technical strategy and roadmap
  • End-to-end delivery of large projects
  • Architecture, reliability, performance, cost
  • Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response
  • Improve observability and automation
  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Cloud-native architectures
  • Go, Python, C, C++, Rust
  • Messaging and telemetry systems

Nice-to-have

  • Customer focused
  • Passion for creating intuitive products
  • AI-assisted development experience
  • Influence without authority
  • Strong communicator

Key Requirements

  • Proven delivery of large distributed systems
  • Strong systems-design instincts
  • Hands-on cloud and platform experience
  • Reliability and performance ownership
  • Excellent coding and design skills
  • Comfort with AI-assisted development
  • Experience with messaging and telemetry
  • Influence without authority
  • Strong communicator

Work Rights

Not specified

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