Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry | Spain | Remote

Grafana Labs

Spain
Base: €91,000 - €115,000; bonus/equity: not specif...
Remote
Drive technical strategy and roadmap
Lead end-to-end delivery of large projects
Own 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.
  • Own architecture, reliability, performance, and cost for critical systems, making pragmatic choices that balance various factors.
  • Mentor and grow engineering talent, coach senior and mid-level engineers, and raise engineering standards.

Matching Summary

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

Salary

Base: €91,000 - €115,000; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

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

Nice-to-have

  • Customer focused and passionate about creating intuitive products
  • Influence without authority
  • Strong communicator across teams

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 (Go, Python, C/C++/Rust)
  • Experience with messaging and telemetry systems
  • Ability to align cross-functional stakeholders

Work Rights

Not specified

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