Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | Spain | Remote
Core
Design, build, and operate critical distributed systems for alert ingestion, evaluation, and delivery at infinite scale for the Grafana open-source project and Grafana Cloud.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Alerting)
Builds
Distributed systems for Prometheus-based alert scaling, unified alert setup/delivery, and high-throughput alert evaluation (500+ evals/sec)
Domain
Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems
Required skills
Go, distributed systems design, cloud software development, system reliability engineering, on-call ownership, technical mentorship, roadmap influence
Preferred skills
Python, Java, C++, Rust, systems engineering experience
Technologies
Go, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud
Responsibilities
Design and build critical systems owning reliability and performance; drive projects from ideation to operations; participate in on-call rotations; mentor team members; influence roadmap and career objectives; contribute to open-source projects
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
