Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting | Ireland | Remote

Republic Of Ireland ( ), IrelandRemote

Responsibilities

Build distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts
Build distributed systems to scale alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production.
Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team

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 backend-focused team works closely with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-prem and at infinite scale in Cloud.
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
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
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings.

Compensation & Rewards:
In Ireland, the compensation range for this role is EUR 104,000 - EUR 124,800 .
Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process.
*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.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique.

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 is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applications from Ireland. The Opportunity:
The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project (link) , and our mission is to provide the most in-depth way to let users manage their alerts.
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:
Unify Alerting setup and delivery to work the same for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts