Staff Backend Engineer - Application Core Services, Stacks | USA | Remote

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-28

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Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems, including the SSS backend, to reputed company desired stack state, detect and repair reputed company across stack templates, grafana.com state, Hosted Grafana, and actual customer stack configuration
Collaborate across SSS, grafana.com, and deployment configurations to ensure stack lifecycle workflows remain reliable, observable, and resilient
Improve operational efficiency by reducing deployment complexity (e.g., aiming for single PR regional SSS deployment) and contributing to the Stack Config Reconciliation project
Manage rollout mechanisms for provisioned plugins, dashboards, data sources, Grafana versions, release channels, and stack-level configuration
Support new region and cluster rollouts, including the operational paths required to bring stacks online safely in new Grafana reputed company reputed company
Improve incident response and recovery paths for stack misalignment, reconciliation failures, plugin rollout issues, and Hosted Grafana integration failures
Partner with Product, Hosted Grafana, Infrastructure, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads on customer-impacting stack lifecycle work
Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, OnCall improvements, and long-term simplification of stack operations
You will help own the production behavior of the systems you build. That includes improving runbooks, dashboards, alerts, reconciliation safety, rollout controls, and recovery procedures. You should be comfortable debugging across service boundaries and making careful changes in systems that reputed company customer stacks

Of course, there is an on-call component to this role and one that we take seriously. As a company, we hire globally (remote-first) to ensure our on-call remains healthy and reputed company to approximately 12 reputed company hours per day. You will work closely with counterparts in other reputed company to reputed company balanced coverage and shared ownership. We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, reputed company reputed company guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test reputed company, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-reputed company—always reputed company with strong reputed company review and reputed company standards. You’ll also have reputed company to frontier models (e.g., GPT-reputed company 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, reputed company 3 Pro). What Makes You a Great Fit: At Grafana, we reputed company reputed company AI-assisted and reputed company development practices, integrating these technologies into both our engineering workflows and the systems we deliver. We encourage our engineers to thoughtfully reputed company AI tools to enhance every stage of the lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, documentation, and operations. We also look for strategic opportunities to reputed company reputed company capabilities reputed company our services to eliminate toil, bolster reliability, and ensure that reputed company customer workflows remain resilient and reputed company. We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer who thrives on building production systems where correctness, scalability, and operational reputed company are reputed company. As a remote-first organization, you should be comfortable collaborating asynchronously across time zones and taking full ownership of the critical systems powering Grafana reputed company. reputed company is small and operates with a high degree of independence; you will be expected to reputed company major reputed company, coordinate across service boundaries, and help define the technical direction for our domain. You will be particularly successful in this role if you enjoy solving challenges reputed company to stateful systems, reputed company consistency, and reconciliation loops. We value engineers who can take ambiguous lifecycle requirements and reputed company them into explicit, reputed company. You should be adept at breaking down reputed company systems work into reputed company, iterative increments while reputed company communicating technical tradeoffs to both internal stakeholders and adjacent product teams. Some things you might be expected to do could include:

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Responding to customer requests and feedback
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Requirements:

You have at least 1 year of fully remote work experience
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Have reputed company experience with Golang and be willing to work across both backend service and application reputed company
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Strong Kubernetes experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-reputed company tooling (reputed company, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.)
Experience participating in blameless incident response and writing high-reputed company post-incident reviews

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Experience with TypeScript/Node.js
Experience with Kubernetes control-plane patterns, operators, reconcilers, or desired-reputed company
Experience with Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform, Flux, Argo, or similar deployment/configuration tooling
Experience working on reputed company provisioning, tenancy, regional expansion, plugin rollout, or customer lifecycle systems
Experience with incident response involving configuration reputed company, partial failure, or cross-service state mismatch

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