# Staff Software Engineer - Application Core Services | 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: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/6227875004?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/grafana-staff-software-engineer-application-core-services-us-remote/

## About the role

Application Core Services (AppCore) is a group within Platform, in the Foundations department. We build and operate systems that support Grafana’s business operations and customer experience, working closely with product teams and internal business partners. The Usage squad works on billing, rates, usage calculations, usage visibility and cloud marketplace integrations. Our software helps customers understand their consumption and costs, and helps internal teams operate accurate, reliable billing processes. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Substantial experience designing, delivering and operating production backend systems, with the depth and judgment to lead complex work hands-on
- Strong experience building and operating production backend systems in Go, our primary backend language
- Professional experience contributing to frontend applications using TypeScript and React, or comparable technologies, and willingness to work across the stack as priorities change
- Experience reasoning about distributed systems, including partial failures, retries, consistency and interactions between services
- Experience with relational databases, including data modelling, schema migrations, query performance and safe production changes
- Practical experience deploying and troubleshooting containerised services and jobs in Kubernetes

Tags: R&D: Platform

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