Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations. Built on open source and open standards, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI. Customers include Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries.

The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project. The backend-focused team works closely with customers and Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-prem and at infinite scale in Cloud. Recent projects include building distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts, unifying Alerting setup and delivery for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts, and scaling alert evaluation to over 500 evaluations per second in production.

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then iterate and improve
• Drive projects from ideation to operations
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability
• Be part of on-call rotations and take ownership of services
• Mentor and support team members, participate in design discussions
• Learn new skills by understanding our cloud product and customers

• Motivated self-starter with a bias towards action
• Customer focused
• Pragmatism: break down complex challenges, deliver MVPs, gather feedback, iterate
• Collaboration and communication in a fully remote setup
• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, but Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar translate well)
• Some experience delivering projects from requirements to shipping
• Some experience with cloud software or systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, performant, maintainable software

In Ireland, the compensation range is EUR 117,600 - EUR 141,120. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset. All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

• 100% Remote, Global Culture
• Scaling Organization
• Transparent Communication
• Innovation-Driven
• Open Source Roots
• Empowered Teams
• Career Growth Pathways
• Approachable Leadership
• Passionate People
• In-Person onboarding
• Balance is Key: 30 days annual leave per annum, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.