engineering
Posted 18 hours agoSenior Backend Engineer - Grafana Backend Services | Sweden | Remote
at Grafana Labs
SwedenRemote
Responsibilities
- Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team
Requirements
- 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.
- The Grafana backend Services squad’s mission is to deliver the best Grafana service to both On-Prem and Cloud customers in a unified, end-to-end manner, from ownership of the API codebase all the way to operation of its components.
- Today, this means taking charge of multiple components such as the Grafana Backend API itself and the CLI tool, but also all the orchestration infrastructure required to deliver Grafana at the scale of our Cloud product.
- You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction.
- We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always paired with strong code review and quality standards.
- You’ll also have access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro).
- Have solid backend development experience, ideally with Go
- Good understanding of storage solutions with an emphasis on relational databases like MySQL, SQLite, and Postgres
- experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming ideas to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way Have
- experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others Have
- experience with mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment
- Experience with open-source software and/or commercial open-source companies •
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes •
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, or Developer Efficiency work streams
- Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks
- Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
- Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings.
Benefits
- Can take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve tight learning loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively Bonus Points For: •
- Compensation & Rewards:
- In Sweden, the Base compensation range for this role is SEK 775,000 - SEK 969,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process.
- Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here .
- *Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range &
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Contact
- Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X .
Additional details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This role is available for candidates located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland and Sweden.
- We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Grafana Backend Services squad. The Opportunity:
- Work with your team to deliver new functionality, then use the results to iterate and improve
- Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features