Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | UK | 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; unified 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, product delivery from ideation to operations, clean code architecture, cloud systems engineering.
Preferred skills
Python, Java, C++, Rust, systems engineering experience.
Technologies
Go, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud platforms.
Responsibilities
Influence roadmap and career objectives; deliver new features and iterate based on results; drive projects from ideation to customer operations; contribute to open-source projects; design, build, and maintain critical systems; participate in on-call rotations; mentor team members and collaborate on design discussions.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence and mentorship.