Responsibilities

Design and build backend systems powering Grafana Enterprise for the world's largest operators
Architect and implement distributed backend services in Go with focus on correctness, observability, and performance at scale
Design APIs and service contracts used by thousands of enterprise operators and cloud service providers
Collaborate with Product and UX to shape features and partner with frontend engineers to ship complete solutions
Drive scalability and reliability improvements for regulated, high-availability environments
Engage directly with large enterprise customers and cloud service providers to understand requirements
Participate in weekday 12h x 5d and weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations
Hire and develop engineers to build the future of Grafana
Drive continuous improvement of engineering culture and operational practices

Requirements

Deep professional experience writing production services from ideation through production operations at scale
Strong distributed systems fundamentals: replication, consistency models, partitioning, fault tolerance
Experience designing and operating systems for large-scale, high-traffic, high-availability, or multi-tenant environments
Professional experience building and consuming gRPC/protobuf APIs and designing clean service contracts
Strong database skills with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL including schema design, query optimization, and migrations at scale
Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems and build tooling
Comfort working with Kubernetes
Strong written and interpersonal communication skills for remote collaboration

Experience with infrastructure, observability, or software delivery platforms
Experience with AI coding assistants (GPT, Claude, Gemini) for development workflow