168K–210K AUD / year
Staff Backend Software Engineer - Loki
BackendRemote — Australia
Published on 2026-09-23
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About this role
Grafana Labs is looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer to work on their observability platform, focusing on their telemetry databases including Loki for logs. The role includes designing, building, and maintaining systems while contributing 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
Databases team
Stack
GoKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry
What you'll do
- Design and maintain critical backend systems
- Influence the development roadmap
- Deliver new features iteratively
- Participate in on-call rotations
- Mentor team members
What we're looking for
- Experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred)
- Experience delivering projects independently
- Experience with cloud systems or systems engineering
- Ability to write clean and maintainable code
Nice to have
- Experience with low level code for databases
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Grafana or Prometheus
- Exposure to microservices architecture
Benefits
- Equity options
- 30 days annual leave
- Remote work flexibility