# Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise | 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: 2026-05-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/6007414004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/grafana-staff-backend-engineer-grafana-enterprise-us-remote/

## About the role

Grafana Enterprise is our composable observability platform focused on large-scale operators with security and regulatory requirements who need to self-operate their observability solutions. Grafana Enterprise features are also part of our Grafana Cloud service. Grafana Cloud is an integrated suite of observability applications offered as a service.

## What they're looking for

- Deep professional experience writing production services, from ideation through to production operations at scale
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals: replication, consistency models, partitioning, fault tolerance, and the trade-offs that come with operating at scale
- Professional experience building and consuming gRPC/protobuf APIs and designing clean service contracts across service boundaries
- Strong database skills, such as PostgreSQL and/or MySQL, including schema design, query optimisation, and schema migrations at scale
- Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems and build tooling, designing, operating, or integrating with continuous delivery pipelines that serve large engineering organisations or external operators at scale
- Comfort working with Kubernetes and containerised deployment environments, including patterns for operating stateful workloads and multi-tenant clusters

Tags: R&D: Grafana