Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | Sweden | 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 ingestion, evaluation, and delivery; unifies alerting setup for Grafana and Prometheus.
Domain
Observability / Distributed Systems / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, distributed systems design, system reliability, on-call ownership, cloud software development, clean code practices, project delivery from ideation to shipping, mentoring.
Preferred skills
Python, Java, C++, Rust, systems engineering experience.
Technologies
Go, Prometheus, Cloud
Responsibilities
Design and build modular solutions for alert evaluation and delivery; own reliability, performance, and availability of critical services; participate in on-call rotations; mentor team members; contribute to open-source projects; drive projects from ideation to operations.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence