# Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise

**Company:** [Grafana Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/grafana-labs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Distributed Systems, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Postgres, MySQL, Database Schema Design, Schema Migrations, API Design, Multi-Tenancy, Observability, Open Source, Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir
**Posted:** 2026-07-09

> Design and operate scalable Go-based distributed backend services powering Grafana Enterprise for large-scale, regulated operators. The role requires deep production experience, distributed-systems expertise, API and database design skills, customer focus, and technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and lead development of backend services, distributed systems, and enterprise features at scale.
- Drive projects from ideation through development, production, and ongoing operations.
- Contribute to platform scalability, reliability, security, and multi-tenancy.
- Own operational health through weekday and weekend on-call rotations.
- Hire, develop, and mentor engineers.
- Improve engineering and operational practices across the organization.
- Build backend systems powering Grafana Enterprise for large-scale operators.
- Architect and implement distributed backend services in Go, emphasizing correctness, observability, and performance.
- Design APIs and service contracts for enterprise operators and cloud service providers.
- Collaborate with Product, UX, and frontend engineering teams on end-to-end solutions.
- Engage directly with enterprise customers and cloud service providers to understand requirements and translate them into engineering solutions.
- Contribute to open-source communities.

## Requirements
- Deep professional experience writing production services through operations at scale.
- Strong distributed-systems fundamentals, including replication, consistency models, partitioning, and fault tolerance.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale, high-traffic, high-availability, or multi-tenant systems.
- Professional experience building and consuming gRPC and Protocol Buffers APIs.
- Experience designing clean service contracts across service boundaries.
- Strong database skills, including schema design, query optimization, and schema migrations at scale.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Strong teamwork and customer focus.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Remote position for candidates in the US and Canada.
- Company-funded budget for modern AI coding assistants and access to frontier models, within security guidelines.
- Flexible remote-first collaboration with regular video meetings.

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