Senior or Staff Backend Engineer

Grafana Labs is seeking a senior or staff level backend engineer to join the Asserts.ai team within the Observability group. This role involves building and leading backend initiatives for a set of low-latency microservices built in Java, working with databases like Graph DB. The services provide automated Root Cause Insights by querying Grafana Cloud Metrics, Traces, and Logs databases, integrating with Grafana platform components.

Key responsibilities include:

• Driving technical and business strategy in the Observability department
• Influencing product roadmap and driving innovations
• Creating system designs and collaborating across teams
• Delivering new features and iterating based on results
• Building and operating critical systems, ensuring reliability and performance
• Participating in on-call rotations
• Mentoring team members and becoming a subject matter expert in observability

The ideal candidate should have:

• Strong distributed systems background
• Experience with Java programming and microservices
• Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with Kubernetes
• History of operating production services
• Ability to mentor team members
• Passion for sharing knowledge through blog posts and tech talks

Grafana Labs offers a remote-first, globally distributed work environment with a focus on work-life balance and professional development. The company values collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, providing opportunities to contribute to open-source projects and attend company-wide hack-a-thons and team off-sites.

Join Grafana Labs to be part of a diverse team working on cutting-edge observability and monitoring solutions used by millions worldwide.