Staff Backend Engineer (Grafana App Platform)

Join Grafana, a leading open-source analytics and monitoring platform. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in transforming Grafana's core architecture into a fully multi-tenant and scalable platform. You will be responsible for coding new features, enhancing operational experiences, and mentoring team members. Enjoy a fully remote work environment, generous vacation and healthcare benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

• Refactor a significant portion of Grafana's architecture to make it simpler and standardized, ensuring it is fully multi-tenant and scalable.
• Code new features, enhance the operational experience of the systems developed, and iteratively improve them based on production insights.
• Take an active role in shaping the roadmap, mentoring and supporting other team members, and collaborating with different teams across the organization.
• You have worked on a SaaS platform and dealt with common distributed systems problems (e.g. scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA, …)
• You are pragmatic; you prioritize progress over perfection; you can handle ambiguity
• You are willing to work across teams. Your work has to be aligned with the needs of other squads and external stakeholders. You make your plans transparent, bring stakeholders on board, and are open to feedback and suggestions
• You have excellent communication skills. You can express your ideas with great clarity in writing and during meetings. You know when to pick which mode of communication
• You have strong coding skills and operational experience; you were responsible for operating the software you have built
• We are using Golang on the backend; you are either already familiar with Golang or are excited to learn the language
• You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity