110K–132K EUR / year

Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Alerting

BackendRemote — Germany
Published on 2026-09-30
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About this role

The Grafana Alerting squad is focused on enhancing the alert management capabilities of Grafana. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and maintain critical systems, collaborate with your team to deliver features, and contribute to an open-source culture.

About the company

Grafana Labs builds open-source and commercial observability tools for metrics, logs, and traces, centered on Grafana dashboards. It helps teams monitor infrastructure and applications and investigate incidents.

The team

Grafana Alerting squad

Stack

GoPythonJavaC++Rust

What you'll do

  • Influence the roadmap and career objectives
  • Deliver new features and iterate based on results
  • Drive projects from ideation to operation
  • Design, build, and maintain critical systems
  • Participate in on-call rotations
  • Mentor team members
  • Gain a deeper understanding of cloud product and codebase

What we're looking for

  • Motivated self-starter with a bias towards action
  • Customer-focused mindset
  • Experience with at least one programming language
  • Experience delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping
  • Experience in software development for cloud or systems engineering
  • Ability to write clean and maintainable code

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Go
  • Experience in building modular solutions
  • Background in distributed systems
  • Experience with Prometheus-based alerts

Benefits

  • 100% remote work
  • 30 days annual leave
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Hiring process

  1. Hiring manager screen
  2. Technical interview
  3. Team fit interview
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