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Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Alerting

UKRemoteFull-time£104k2026-10-11 → 2026-11-09
Remote

Core

Design, build, operate, and maintain critical distributed systems for Grafana Alerting and SLOs products to scale alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation for customers worldwide.

Role type

Staff Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Builds

Distributed systems for alert ingestion, delivery, and evaluation at infinite scale for Grafana Cloud and on-prem.

Domain

Observability, Alerting, Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Go, Cloud systems engineering, Distributed systems design, System reliability, On-call operations, Product roadmap influence, Mentorship

Preferred skills

Python, Java, C++, Rust, Self-driven project delivery

Technologies

Go, Prometheus, Grafana Cloud

Responsibilities

Design and build modular solutions for complex alerting challenges, Own the reliability and availability of critical services, Participate in on-call rotations, Mentor and support team members, Contribute to open-source projects outside team scope, Drive projects from ideation to customer operations.