Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Alerting | Ireland | Remote
Staff backend engineer on Grafana Labs' Alerting squad, building and operating distributed systems that scale alert ingestion, evaluation, and delivery for the open-source Grafana project and Grafana Cloud (including the SLOs product). Primarily Go development; fully remote role open to applicants in Ireland.
- Compensation
- €117.6K–€141.1K / yr
- Location
- County Dublin, Ireland
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred; Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar translate well)
- Some experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering experience
- Some experience delivering projects end to end, from gathering requirements and brainstorming to shipping to customers in a self-driven way
- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
- Motivated self-starter with a bias towards action
- Customer focused, with a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs
- Pragmatism: break down complex challenges, build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather feedback and iterate
- Good collaboration and communication skills, suited to a fully remote setup
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of services
Full description
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
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.
This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applications from Ireland.
The Opportunity
The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project (link), and our mission is to provide the most in-depth way to let users manage their alerts. The backend-focused team works closely with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-prem and at infinite scale in Cloud. The team's scope spans both Grafana Alerting and the SLOs product, so engineers get to work across two products that are deeply connected in how they help users detect and respond to problems.
Grafana Alerting is trusted by major organizations worldwide, monitoring essential medical devices and critical infrastructure. We thrive on collective creativity and diverse perspectives, every team member is encouraged to contribute ideas that shape our product into a dependable tool.
Our Domain Is Quite Large, So To Get An Idea Of The Kind Of Work We Do, Here Are Some Projects We Recently Worked On
- Build distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts
- Unify Alerting setup and delivery to work the same for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts
- Build distributed systems to scale alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production.
Grafana Alerting is trusted by major organizations worldwide, monitoring essential medical devices and critical infrastructure. We thrive on collective creativity and diverse perspectives, every team member is encouraged to contribute ideas that shape our product into a dependable tool.