Staff Software Engineer
Core
Design and build distributed backend systems for the control plane that creates, configures, and operates thousands of customer environments safely and reliably.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Platform, Application Core Services)
Builds
Control plane services for Grafana Cloud, including provisioning, cloud marketplace integrations, billing, and customer lifecycle management.
Domain
SaaS observability platform, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure
Required skills
Large-scale SaaS or cloud platform experience, Backend engineering in Go or similar systems languages, Kubernetes, Cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-code, Distributed systems design, System reliability, Technical leadership, Production operations and incident response
Preferred skills
Kubernetes operators or reconcilers, Control plane development, Go and TypeScript/Node.js, Terraform, Flux, Argo, Jsonnet, Tanka, SaaS provisioning systems, Multi-tenant platforms, Configuration drift and cross-service consistency solutions
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Flux, Argo, Jsonnet, Tanka, TypeScript, Node.js, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google models
Responsibilities
Design and build distributed backend systems ensuring consistent customer stack state, Develop reconciliation and automation workflows to improve reliability, Lead technical initiatives spanning multiple services, Improve deployment workflows and incident recovery, Own production systems including observability and on-call rotations
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
