Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform | Uk | Remote

Grafana Labs

Remote, United Kingdom
Base: £103,958 - £124,750; bonus/equity: restricte...
Fully remote
Strong coding skills in golang or willingness to learn
Experience with saas platforms at scale
Operational experience owning built software
Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for their remote team, focused on enhancing their Grafana App Platform, which is utilized by a wide array of users globally. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with SaaS platforms, particularly in building scalable systems, and will play a significant role in the evolution and optimization of Grafana's core architecture

Job Summary

  • Grafana Labs is scaling its core architecture to be fully multi-tenant and scalable as a proper observability app platform.
  • The role involves refactoring significant parts of Grafana to ensure simpler, standardized operations while avoiding service disruptions.
  • Employees are provided with company-funded budgets for modern AI coding assistants to iterate quickly without friction.

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Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for their remote team, focused on enhancing their Grafana App Platform, which is utilized by a wide array of users globally. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with SaaS platforms, particularly in building scalable systems, and will play a significant role in the evolution and optimization of Grafana's core architecture.

Salary

Base: £103,958 - £124,750; Bonus/Equity: Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) included; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Strong coding skills in Golang or willingness to learn
  • Experience with SaaS platforms at scale
  • Operational experience owning built software
  • Knowledge of distributed systems problems like scalability
  • Ability to participate in on-call rotations

Nice-to-have

  • Pragmatic approach prioritizing progress over perfection
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience mentoring team members
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools
  • Willingness to work across multiple teams

Key Requirements

  • UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden, or Ireland residency required
  • Strong operational experience with software you have built
  • Experience dealing with multi-tenancy and data isolation

Work Rights

Must be located in UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden, or Ireland

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