Senior Backend Engineer, Observability: Ingest (Remote, USA)

Grafana Labs, the company behind the widely-used Grafana visualization tool with over 20M users globally, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Observability: Ingest team. This remote position focuses on building and maintaining critical infrastructure components that enable customers to deploy, configure, and monitor Observability Collector instances worldwide.

The role involves working on significant projects like Fleet Management, Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and Frontend Observability ingestion pipeline. You'll be part of a team that creates and maintains key building blocks for transporting Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Profiles to Grafana Cloud. The position requires collaboration with various teams at Grafana and the wider open-source community.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll lead projects from conception to implementation, contribute to open-source projects, and take responsibility for essential systems' reliability and performance. The role includes participating in on-call rotations and mentoring team members. The company emphasizes a remote-first approach, making strong communication skills essential.

The position offers competitive compensation ranging from $148,505 to $178,206, along with equity, potential bonuses, and comprehensive benefits. This is an excellent opportunity for experienced engineers passionate about observability, distributed systems, and open-source development. The role combines technical leadership, hands-on development, and the chance to impact a product used by major organizations worldwide, including NASA, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay.

Ideal candidates should have strong experience with Go or similar languages, proven project delivery capabilities, and cloud development experience. Knowledge of Kubernetes, Grafana, and distributed systems is advantageous. The role offers significant growth potential and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge observability technologies.