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Posted May 28Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | Canada | Remote
at Grafana Labs
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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.
- Grafana Enterprise features are also part of our Grafana Cloud service.
- Our backend is Go, and we build tools for people operating some of the world's largest observability and software delivery stacks.
- 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 4.7, Gemini 3 Pro).
- You insist on the highest standards and work to develop the skills and knowledge of your fellow team members.
- Architecting and implementing distributed backend services in Go, with a focus on correctness, observability, and performance at scale
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals: replication, consistency models, partitioning, fault tolerance, and the trade-offs that come with operating at scale Demonstrated
- experience building and consuming gRPC/protobuf APIs and designing clean service contracts across service boundaries
- Strong database skills, such as PostgreSQL and/or MySQL; including schema design, query optimisation, and schema migrations at scale •
- Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems and build tooling, designing, operating, or integrating with continuous delivery pipelines that serve large engineering organisations or external operators at scale
- Comfort working with Kubernetes and containerised deployment environments, including patterns for operating stateful workloads and multi-tenant clusters •
- Experience with observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing
- Familiarity with dependency injection patterns (e.g., Google Wire) and clean, testable service architecture What are your "nice to have" technical competencies? •
- Experience with TypeScript and React for contributing to frontend features and collaborating closely with frontend engineers •
- Experience with Grafana's LGTM+ observability stack (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope, Alloy) Prior
- experience at or building for large-scale cloud service providers, IaaS providers, or global enterprises with demanding SLA requirements •
- Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings.
Benefits
- In Canada, the compensation range for this role is $186,368 - $223,642 CAD.
- 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.
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 is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the US and Canada. The Opportunity:
- Grafana Enterprise is our composable observability platform focused on large-scale operators with security and regulatory
- requirements who need to self-operate their observability solutions.
- It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software, including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo, without the overhead of installing, maintaining, and scaling their own observability stack.