Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana k6

This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants from USA in EST time zone.

Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana k6

The Opportunity:

We are the team behind Grafana k6 Grafana Cloud k6 and Grafana Cloud Synthetics used by teams globally to ensure resilient high-performing systems.  This opportunity is with the synthetics squad who build and operate our monitoring product:  a multi-tenant distributed system implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across all major Cloud service providers (GCP Azure AWS) running billions of synthetic tests each month.

Staff Software Engineers at Grafana have a large amount of experience across multiple areas. They are able to estimate plan coordinate and deliver large tasks spanning multiple systems. They actively coach and mentor other team members in their team and are able to identify and resolve issues with technology and product processes.

What You’ll Be Doing:

We define senior roles via the scope of their business impact more than via their expertise or their specific activities. The most important thing we are looking for in an engineer is the ability to take ownership. You will need to drive technical implementations working across engineering teams and departments contribute to business conversations and help shape the long-term strategy. You’ll bring your passion for observability and software engineering expertise to help us take synthetic monitoring capabilities within Grafana Cloud to the next level. This will include working across products including Synthetics Frontend Observability Grafana k6 and Grafana Cloud k6.

• Design and implement high-quality scalable services to be consumed by multiple Grafana Cloud products.

• Work with product teams in addition to design and docs to develop features that align with wider product strategy and customer needs

• Support the technical direction and vision of the team contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions

• When necessary represent Grafana Labs in open source forums working groups and events

• Work with other departments including Sales Product and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience

• Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running

• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is entirely remote we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls so an independent attitude good communication skills and transparency are a must.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Strong 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language. We use Go but do not require candidates with Go experience. Long term experience in any major language (Python .NET Java Rust etc) with a willingness to learn Go is acceptable.

• Demonstrated experience working with and monitoring Kubernetes in a production environment

• Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems

• Experience writing clean maintainable robust and performant software

• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana Prometheus Loki OpenTelemetry)

• Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner

• Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role setting technical direction and leading project teams

• Experience with distributed systems

• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills

• Strong mentoring and leadership skills

• Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management

Bonus Points For:

• Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications

• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects with evidence of successful pull requests and community collaboration

• In-depth knowledge cloud platform internals

• Strong understanding of metrics collection visualization and alerting concepts

Compensation & Rewards:

In the United States the base compensation range for this role is USD 168256- USD 201907. Actual compensation may vary based on level experience and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.