About this role
Build and operate the control plane behind Grafana Cloud, designing distributed systems that create, configure, and operate thousands of customer environments. Lead technical initiatives spanning multiple services at the intersection of product, platform, and operations.
Must have
Experience building and operating large-scale SaaS or cloud platforms
Strong backend engineering experience in Go or another systems language
Experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code
Experience solving distributed systems, eventual consistency, and reliability problems
Ability to independently lead projects and influence technical direction across teams
Experience with production operations, incident response, and on-call
Comfortable working in a remote-first, highly collaborative environment
Technologies
Responsibilities
Design and build distributed backend systems that keep customer stack state consistent across Grafana Cloud
Develop reconciliation and automation workflows that improve reliability and reduce operational complexity
Lead technical initiatives spanning multiple services and partner with Product, Infrastructure, and platform teams
Improve deployment workflows, regional expansion, rollout safety, and incident recovery across thousands of environments
Own production systems including observability, operational tooling, on-call, and continuous reliability improvements
Participate in a global follow-the-sun on-call rotation
Benefits
Recruitment process
100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries
Company-funded AI coding assistant usage budget with access to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google frontier models
30 days annual leave with 3 reserved Grafana Shutdown Days
In-person onboarding for new team members
Open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture company values
RSUs provided to all team members for shared ownership in company success
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