Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry | Usa | Remote

Grafana Labs

Remote, United States
Base: usd 174,986 - usd 209,983; bonus/equity: not...
Remote
Drive technical strategy and roadmap
Lead end-to-end delivery of large projects
Own architecture, reliability, performance, cost
Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company with over 20 million users globally

Job Summary

  • Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company with over 20 million users globally.
  • The Adaptive Telemetry group develops solutions to control and optimize telemetry data storage based on usage patterns.
  • The role involves driving technical strategy, leading project delivery, and owning the reliability and performance of critical systems.

Matching Summary

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company with over 20 million users globally.

Salary

Base: USD 174,986 - USD 209,983; 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
  • Strong systems-design instincts

Nice-to-have

  • Customer focused and passionate
  • Influence without authority
  • Strong communicator across teams
  • Pragmatic AI-assisted development

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)
  • Comfort with AI-assisted development
  • Experience with messaging and telemetry systems
  • Ability to align cross-functional stakeholders

Work Rights

Not specified

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