Staff Backend Engineer (Adaptive Telemetry, Databases)

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Backend Engineer in the Adaptive Telemetry group. You will drive technical strategy, lead cross-functional projects, own architecture and performance, improve observability and automation, mentor engineering talent, and represent engineering internally and externally. Enjoy a remote-first work environment, generous benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

• Conduire la stratégie technique et la feuille de route, définir la vision architecturale et prioriser le travail qui débloque des améliorations majeures.
• Diriger la livraison de projets transversaux de grande envergure, en possédant la planification, la conception, l'exécution, le déploiement et l'exploitation à long terme.
• Posséder l'architecture, la fiabilité, la performance et le coût des systèmes critiques, en faisant des choix d'architecture pragmatiques.
• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind
• Experience with messaging and telemetry. Familiarity with streaming/messaging systems (e.g., Kafka) and observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana or equivalents)
• Influence without authority. Ability to align cross-functional stakeholders, set priorities and drive outcomes in a remote-first environment
• Strong systems-design instincts. Deep understanding of tradeoffs around latency, consistency, availability, scaling and cost
• Proven delivery of large distributed systems. Experience shipping and operating complex systems that span multiple teams, with clear evidence of technical leadership and impact
• Strong communicator. Clear written and verbal communication that works across engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• 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
• 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
• You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• Hands-on cloud and platform experience. Solid experience with cloud-native architectures (microservices, containers/Kubernetes, IaC) and the operational practices that keep them healthy
• Reliability and performance ownership. Comfortable defining SLOs/SLIs, doing capacity planning, tuning performance, and driving reliability work end-to-end
• 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