Grafana Labs
observability
SeniorBackendEngineer-Alerting
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“Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting at Grafana Labs. Skills: Backend, Alerting, Distributed systems. Influence roadmap. Deliver new features”
Industry & Context.
Take on complex challenges; Break them down; Achieve short feedback loops; Analyze; Design; Build modular solutions; Gather data and feedback; Progress iteratively
On-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Solid experience with at least one programming language, Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud, Some experience with systems engineering, Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software
Nice to Have
Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust
What You'll Do.
Contribute to open-source
Design critical systems
Build critical systems
Operate critical systems
Maintain critical systems
Participate in design discussions
Collaborate with team
Understand cloud product
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with your team; Collaborate with the team
Communication Scope
Good communication skills
Full Job Description
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J. P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. Senior Backend Engineer, Alerting This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applications from Sweden. The Opportunity: The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project (link), and our mission is to provide the most in-depth way to let users manage their alerts. The backend-focused team works closely with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-prem and at infinite scale in Cloud. Our domain is quite large, so to get an idea of the kind of work we do, here are some projects we recently worked on: Build distribu
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