Grafana Labs - Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry | UK | Remote
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Requirements
• Reliability and performance ownership. Comfortable defining SLOs/SLIs, doing capacity planning, tuning performance, and driving reliability work end-to-end. • Reliability and performance ownership. • Excellent coding and design skills. You write clear, maintainable, well-tested code and can lead technical designs — we use Go, but Python/C/C++/Rust or similar translate well. • Comfort with AI-assisted development. We embrace AI and agentic development so we expect you to be curious and comfortable using AI-powered developer tools and ideally have practical experience folding them into a team’s workflow. • Comfort with AI-assisted development. • Experience with messaging and telemetry. Familiarity with streaming/messaging systems (e.g., Kafka) and observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana or equivalents). • Experience with messaging and telemetry. • Influence without authority. Ability to align cross-functional stakeholders, set priorities and drive outcomes in a remote-first environment. • Influence without authority. • Strong communicator. Clear written and verbal communication that works across engineers and non-technical stakeholders. • Strong communicator.
Responsibilities
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap for Adaptive Telemetry solutions within the Databases department. • Define architectural vision proactively to prioritize work that unlocks major product improvements. • Influence decisions in both engineering and business areas related to observability strategies with Grafana LGTM Stack, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope databases as part of the service supporting Grafana Cloud.
Benefits
• 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose. • 100% Remote, Global Culture - • Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment. • Scaling Organization • Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates. • Transparent Communication • Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things. • Innovation-Driven • Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work. • Open Source Roots • Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics. • Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career. • Career Growth Pathways • Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human. • Approachable Leadership • Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do. • Passionate People • In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it. • In-Person onboarding • Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable. • Balance is Key
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