Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | US | Remote

ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Backend Engineer to join our Grafana Enterprise team. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing and leading the development of backend services, distributed systems, and enterprise features at scale. You will be responsible for driving continuous improvement of our engineering culture and contributing to the scalability, reliability, security, and multi-tenancy of the Grafana platform. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Staff Backend Engineer, your primary responsibilities will include: - Earning the trust of our large-scale operator customers to further Grafana's "big tent" philosophy of data accessibility and to meet clear business objectives - Designing and leading the development of backend services, distributed systems, and enterprise features at scale - Driving continuous improvement of our engineering culture through words and actions - Driving projects from initial ideation through the development lifecycle to production - Contributing to the scalability, reliability, security, and multi-tenancy of the Grafana platform trusted by some of the world's largest operators - Owning the operational health of our platform by participating in on-call rotations - Hiring and developing the best engineers to build the future of Grafana - Developing your skills as a thought leader to drive continuous improvement of engineering and operational practices across Grafana Labs WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - Experience as a software engineer with a passion for distributed systems and building reliable, scalable backend infrastructure - Strong teamwork and excellent written and interpersonal communication skills - Ability to work well as a communicative member of a team of engineering professionals - Experience with Go and a willingness to contribute to open source communities WHY REMOTE As a remote-first company, we prioritize flexibility and autonomy. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, trust, and open communication fuel everything we do. We use video calls to meet regularly and provide guidance, and we encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development. BENEFITS - Competitive salary - Comprehensive health plan - Parental leave - Education stipend - Life insurance - Equipment stipend - Flexible schedule - Opportunities for professional growth and development - Access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-Codex 5/3, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3 Pro) for AI-assisted development - Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants