Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana k6 | USA | Remote
Grafana LabsUnited States Virgin Islands, United States
Posted October 31, 2025
168256 - 201907 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Grafana Labs is a leading provider of an open and composable observability stack, centered around Grafana, an open-source platform for dashboards and visualization. With 5,000+ customers and 25M+ users worldwide, the company offers the LGTM Stack, which includes scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo). Grafana Cloud provides fully managed solutions for Kubernetes monitoring, incident response, load testing, and more. Backed by top investors, Grafana Labs is committed to helping companies achieve their observability goals with ease.
Job Description
Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join the grafana k6 and Grafana Cloud development team. This role involves designing, implementing, and scaling high-quality monitoring products used by customers globally. The team focuses on synthetic monitoring capabilities within Grafana Cloud, leveraging Go and Kubernetes. They offer opportunities for growth and collaboration in a remote-first, open-source environment.
Requirements
- Strong 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language.
- Demonstrated experience working with and monitoring Kubernetes in a production environment.
- Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems.
- Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software.
- Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry) and delivery from start to finish.
- Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, setting technical direction and leading project teams.
- Experience with distributed systems
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Strong mentoring and leadership skills
- Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management
Benefits
- Remote work
- Annual leave
- Equal opportunity