Grafana Labs
Observability
SeniorBackendEngineer-Alerting
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“Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting at Grafana Labs. Skills: Backend Engineering, Alerting Systems, Distributed Systems. Influence roadmap and career objectives. Deliver new features”
Industry & Context.
Take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops
On-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Solid experience with at least one programming language, Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way, Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering, Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
Nice to Have
Familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar
What You'll Do.
Influence roadmap and career objectives
Iterate and improve based on results
Drive projects from ideation to operations
Contribute to open-source projects
and maintain critical systems
Participate in on-call rotations
Mentor and support team members
Participate in design discussions
Collaborate with the team
Understand cloud product and customers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with your team to deliver new features; Collaborate with the team; Work with your teammates in a fully remote setup; Participate in design discussions
Communication Scope
Good communication skills are a must; Independent attitude and good communication skills are a must
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 Ireland. 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 distrib
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