Staff Backend Engineer – Adaptive Telemetry, Databases

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About the role

  • Staff Backend Engineer focusing on adaptive telemetry and databases for Grafana Labs. Responsible for technical strategy, project delivery, and system reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical strategy and roadmap.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects.
  • Own architecture, reliability, performance and cost for critical systems.
  • Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response.
  • Improve observability, automation and operational readiness.
  • Align stakeholders and remove blockers.
  • Mentor and grow engineering talent.
  • Represent engineering internally and externally.

Requirements

  • Proven delivery of large distributed systems.
  • Strong systems-design instincts.
  • Hands-on cloud and platform experience.
  • Reliability and performance ownership.
  • Excellent coding and design skills.
  • Comfort with AI-assisted development.
  • Experience with messaging and telemetry.
  • Influence without authority.
  • Strong communicator.

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Bonus (if applicable)
  • 30 days annual leave
  • 3 days of annual leave entitlement reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
  • Access to modern AI coding assistants

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$186,368 - CA$223,642 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudDistributed Systems

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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