Staff Backend Engineer - Second Horizon | US | Remote
Grafana Labs · United States (Remote)
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 82 days Grafana Labs's roles stay open a median of 82 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 24% of Grafana Labs's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Grafana Labs
- high 131 stale, 2 reposted of 131 open
- Hiring momentum
- 206 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-24
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Grafana Labs's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Grafana Labs.
About this role
As a Staff Backend Engineer at Grafana Labs, you will be responsible for designing and implementing core backend services for a new AI-native data intelligence system. This includes building APIs for data retrieval, creating a scalable SaaS architecture, and ensuring the reliability of the services you develop. You will work in a collaborative environment, making architectural decisions and contributing to the overall technical direction of the project.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Grafana Labs as an employer.
What you need
- Strong engineering skills with experience in building production-grade, user-facing software systems
- Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, and building applications powered by GenAI
- Proven track record of delivering software that made it into production and is actively used by users
- Exposure to working in cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience using observability tools to understand and troubleshoot system behavior
Nice to have
- Experience building or working with agent frameworks or multi-agent workflows
- Experience as a data analyst or work with data platforms (e.g., Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, Snowflake, DataBricks)
- Experience building tools for data engineering
What you get
- Base compensation range of $174,986 - $209,983
- Equity
- Bonus (if applicable)
- 30 days of annual leave, including Grafana Shutdown Days
- In-person onboarding
Worth weighing
- Role involves working through ambiguity and making pragmatic architectural decisions
- Early-stage role with potential for redefining responsibilities as the team matures
Summarised from Grafana Labs's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Grafana Labs on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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