104K–125K GBP / year
Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Alerting
BackendRemote — United Kingdom
Published on 2026-09-30
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About this role
The Staff Backend Engineer will play a crucial role in the Grafana Alerting squad, focusing on building scalable alerting systems and enhancing user experiences. The position involves collaboration with cross-functional teams and contribution to both Grafana Alerting and the SLOs product.
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 product roadmap and drive project ideation
- Deliver new features and iterate based on results
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems
- Participate in on-call rotations
- Mentor and support team members
What we're looking for
- Experience with at least one programming language
- Experience delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping
- Experience developing software for the Cloud
- Ability to write clean, maintainable software
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed systems
- Familiarity with Prometheus
- Interest in open-source contributions
Benefits
- Equity through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- 30 days of annual leave
- Grafana Shutdown Days