Backend Engineer - Platform - Stacks | Ireland | Remote

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, offering Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform. They are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries.

Backend Engineer on the AppCore Stacks squad within Platform, responsible for systems that create, configure, reconcile, migrate, and operate Grafana Cloud stacks at scale. This includes building control-plane services and workflows to keep stack state aligned across grafana.com, Stack State Service (SSS), Hosted Grafana, cloud regions, and underlying infrastructure.

• Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems, including the SSS backend.
• Collaborate across SSS, grafana.com, and deployment configurations to ensure stack lifecycle workflows are reliable, observable, and resilient.
• Improve operational efficiency by reducing deployment complexity and contributing to the Stack Config Reconciliation project.
• Manage rollout mechanisms for provisioned plugins, dashboards, data sources, Grafana versions, release channels, and stack-level configuration.
• Support new region and cluster rollouts.
• Improve incident response and recovery paths.
• Partner with Product, Hosted Grafana, Infrastructure, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, OnCall improvements, and long-term simplification.

• At least 1 year of fully remote work experience.
• Some experience working on a SaaS platform and familiarity with distributed systems concepts.
• Professional experience with Golang.
• Care about developer and user experience.
• Experience contributing to project delivery.
• Write clean, well-tested software.
• Ability to break down tasks and execute iteratively.
• Willingness to collaborate across teams.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and exposure to infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
• Experience with blameless incident response.

• Experience with TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience with Kubernetes control-plane patterns, operators, reconcilers, or desired-state systems.
• Experience with Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform, Flux, Argo, or similar.
• Experience with SaaS provisioning, tenancy, regional expansion, plugin rollout, or customer lifecycle systems.
• Experience with incident response involving configuration drift, partial failure, or cross-service state mismatch.

In Ireland, the base compensation range is EUR 81,000 - EUR 102,000. All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Equity (RSUs), 30 days annual leave, remote-first culture, in-person onboarding.

Apply via the provided link.