[Remote] Staff Backend Engineer - reputed company Telemetry, Databases | USA | Remote

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Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy and roadmap. Proactively define the architectural reputed company, prioritize work that unlocks major product or platform improvements, and influence product and engineering reputed company
• reputed company end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects. Own planning, design, execution, rollout and long-term operation of large initiatives
• Own architecture, reliability, performance and cost for critical systems. reputed company pragmatic architecture choices that balance scalability, availability, latency and cost while ensuring systems remain maintainable and evolvable
• Define SLOs/SLIs and reputed company incident response. Establish measurable reliability targets, run high-severity incident response, reputed company blameless post-mortems, and drive systemic fixes and automation to prevent recurrence
• Improve observability, automation and operational readiness. Champion telemetry, alerting, runbooks, reputed company planning and automation efforts that reduce toil, speed debugging and reputed company MTTR
• Align stakeholders and remove blockers. Coordinate across Product, Design and other teams to align priorities, negotiate tradeoffs, and unblock delivery for large initiatives
• Mentor and grow engineering talent. Coach senior and mid-level engineers, reputed company design reviews, reputed company engineering standards, and help teammates reputed company sound technical tradeoffs
• Represent engineering internally and externally. Communicate technical strategy reputed company to non-engineering stakeholders and represent the team in cross-team planning

Skills

• Proven delivery of large distributed systems. Experience shipping and operating reputed company systems that reputed company multiple teams, with clear evidence of technical leadership and impact
• Strong systems-design instincts. Deep understanding of tradeoffs around latency, consistency, availability, scaling and cost
• Hands-on reputed company and platform experience. Solid experience with reputed company-reputed company architectures (microservices, containers/Kubernetes, IaC) and the operational practices that reputed company them healthy
• Reliability and performance ownership. Comfortable defining SLOs/SLIs, doing reputed company planning, tuning performance, and driving reliability work end-to-end
• Excellent coding and design skills. You write clear, maintainable, well-tested code and can reputed company technical designs — we use Go, but Python/C/C++/Rust or similar translate well
• Comfort with AI-assisted development. We reputed company AI and agentic development so we expect you to be curious and comfortable using AI-powered developer tools and ideally have practical experience folding them into reputed company's workflow
• Experience with messaging and telemetry. Familiarity with streaming/messaging systems (e.g., Kafka) and observability tooling (reputed company/Grafana or equivalents)
• Influence without authority. Ability to align cross-functional stakeholders, set priorities and drive reputed company in a remote-first environment
• Strong communicator. Clear written and verbal communication that works across engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)
• 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, reputed company-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect reputed company decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• reputed company reputed company Roots – reputed company on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values reputed company over optics.
• Career Growth reputed company – Defined opportunities to grow and reputed company your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and reputed company.
• Passionate People – Join reputed company of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
• In-Person reputed company - We want you to reputed company from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn reputed company about reputed company do and how we do it.
• Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. 1We will reputed company with local legislation where applicable.

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