Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for their Application Core Services team, focusing on building and maintaining critical systems that support their Grafana Cloud platform. This fully remote position emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and the use of AI tools to enhance software development
Job Summary
The role involves designing and operating reconciliation systems to track desired stack state and detect drift across multiple Grafana Cloud environments.
Engineers will collaborate across service boundaries to ensure reliable stack lifecycle workflows including provisioning, configuration rollout, and migrations.
The team embraces AI-assisted development with company-funded usage budgets for modern coding assistants to enhance productivity and iteration speed.
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Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for their Application Core Services team, focusing on building and maintaining critical systems that support their Grafana Cloud platform. This fully remote position emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and the use of AI tools to enhance software development.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Golang programming experience
Distributed systems knowledge
SaaS platform development
Remote work experience
Stack lifecycle management
Reconciliation system design
Nice-to-have
AI-assisted development practices
Agentic capabilities integration
Open source community contribution
Cross-timezone collaboration
Incident response expertise
Cloud marketplace integration
Key Requirements
At least 1 year of fully remote work experience
Professional experience with Golang
Experience building big SaaS platforms
Knowledge of distributed systems problems
Ability to work in USA time zones (EST + CST)
Work Rights
Must be located in USA time zones (EST + CST only)