# Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform | US | Remote at Grafana

- Company: Grafana
- What the company does: Avoid lock-in and ensure reliability with Grafana Cloud. The AI-powered platform built on open standards unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and Sapphire.
- Company website: https://grafana.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States (Remote)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $175K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5988484004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/grafana-staff-backend-engineer-grafana-app-platform-us-remote/

## About the role

As our Cloud / Grafana-as-a-service business continues to grow, we've started to change Grafana's core architecture to be fully multi-tenant and scalable, as well as a solid platform for our opinionated Cloud apps. We're looking for someone with a lot of experience with SaaS platforms at scale. We are turning Grafana into a proper observability app platform where OSS and proprietary apps can directly tap into dashboards, alerts, incidents, and telemetry and deliver even more integrated experiences.

## What they're looking for

- Coding new features, enhancing the operational experience of the systems you develop, and iteratively improving them based on production insights
- Authoring, contributing to and reviewing design documents
- Taking an active role in shaping the roadmap
- Mentoring and supporting other team members and collaborating with different teams across the organization
- Owning the experience of our customers by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and a separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations
- You have strong coding skills and operational experience, you were responsible for operating the software you have built

Tags: R&D: Grafana