Staff Backend Engineer
Core
Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems and control-plane services that manage the lifecycle, state alignment, and configuration of customer-facing Grafana Cloud stacks at scale.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Platform/Infrastructure)
Builds
Control-plane services, reconciliation systems (SSS), deployment workflows, and operational tooling for Grafana Cloud stacks.
Domain
SaaS Platform Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure / Observability
Required skills
Distributed systems design, state management, eventual consistency, reconciliation loops, system reliability, incident response, technical leadership, async collaboration, cloud marketplace integration.
Preferred skills
AI-assisted development, agentic capabilities, open source contribution, complex workflow automation.
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, grafana.com, Docker, Terraform.
Responsibilities
Design and operate reconciliation systems to track desired stack state and repair drift; collaborate across services to ensure stack lifecycle workflows are reliable and observable; improve operational efficiency by reducing deployment complexity; manage rollout mechanisms for plugins, dashboards, and configurations; support new region and cluster rollouts; improve incident response and recovery paths for stack misalignment; partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Support teams on customer-impacting work; contribute to roadmap planning and technical design.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
