Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry | Uk | Remote

Grafana Labs

United Kingdom
Base: £100,000 - £124,000; bonus/equity: equity, b...
Remote
Drive technical strategy and roadmap
Lead end-to-end delivery of large projects
Own architecture, reliability, performance, and 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 scalability, availability, latency, and cost.
  • Mentor and grow engineering talent, coach senior and mid-level engineers, lead design reviews, and raise engineering standards.

Matching Summary

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

Salary

Base: £100,000 - £124,000; Bonus/Equity: Equity, bonus (if applicable); Benefits: Other benefits listed

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

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

Nice-to-have

  • Motivated self-starter with bias towards action
  • Customer-focused and passionate about intuitive products
  • Influence without authority
  • Strong communicator across disciplines

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

Work Rights

Not specified

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