Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | UK | Remote

As Staff Backend Engineer in the Grafana Alerting squad, you will shape the roadmap and build scalable alerting for Grafana Cloud and on‑prem deployments. You’ll own critical systems, drive features end‑to‑end, and mentor teammates in a remote, open‑source culture. You will work closely with customers and cross‑functional teams to ensure reliable, high‑performing alerting at scale. This is a chance to impact how users monitor essential infrastructure and medical devices worldwide.

• 100% remote
• RSUs / equity
• 30 days annual leave plus Grafana Shutdown Days
• global, inclusive culture
• onboarding with global colleagues
• opportunity for career growth

• Influence roadmap and personal career objectives
• Deliver new features and iterate based on results
• End-to-end project ownership from ideation to production
• Contribute to open-source projects beyond own scope
• Design, build, operate, and maintain reliable and scalable systems
• Participate in on-call rotations and own the services you run
• Mentor teammates and participate in design discussions
• Learn cloud product and large distributed system codebase
• Communicate effectively in a remote-first environment

• Motivated self-starter with bias toward action
• Customer-focused mindset with user-centric product sense
• Ability to break down complex problems for iterative delivery
• Strong collaboration and communication in a fully remote setup
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go preferred; Python/Java/C++/Rust also relevant)
• Experience delivering end-to-end software projects to customers
• Experience with cloud-based software or systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, maintainable software

• customer focus
• collaboration
• communication
• Go (primary)
• Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar
• distributed systems