At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our team to build and maintain scalable alerting systems for Grafana Cloud.
- Company: Grafana Labs, a leader in open-source observability with a global remote culture.
- Benefits: Flexible remote work, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative team culture that values diverse perspectives and innovation.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on critical systems used by major organisations worldwide.
- Qualifications: Experience in programming and delivering software projects, preferably in a cloud environment.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
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 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. 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.
The Opportunity: The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project, 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 distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts
- Unify Alerting setup and delivery to work the same for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts
- Build distributed systems to scale alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production.
Grafana Alerting is trusted by major organizations worldwide, monitoring essential medical devices and critical infrastructure. We thrive on collective creativity and diverse perspectives; every team member is encouraged to contribute ideas that shape our product into a dependable tool.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
- Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
- Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
- Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
- Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
- Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system
As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.
What Makes You a Great Fit:
- You are a motivated self-starter with a bias towards action
- You are customer focused; we build everything with our users in mind.
- You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
- Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
- Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
- Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
- 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
Remote Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | UK | Remote in Stirling employer: Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs is an exceptional employer, offering a fully remote work environment that fosters a global culture of collaboration and innovation. With a strong commitment to employee growth, transparent communication, and a high-trust atmosphere, team members are empowered to tackle meaningful projects while enjoying a generous annual leave policy. Joining Grafana means being part of a passionate team dedicated to open-source values and the pursuit of excellence in AI-powered product analytics.
