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Staff Backend Engineer - Second Horizon | Canada | Remote

Grafana Labs · Canada (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 building the core backend architecture for a new AI-native data intelligence system. Your role will involve creating scalable services for context ingestion and retrieval, developing APIs for AI agents, and collaborating across teams to ensure high-quality, production-grade solutions. This position offers a high degree of autonomy and the opportunity to shape the technical direction of a new product area.

Our read on this posting2.6out of 5
benefits
4/5
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 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
  • Ability to communicate effectively and contribute across teams

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 CAD $186,368 - $223,642
  • Equity
  • Bonus (if applicable)
  • 30 days of annual leave with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
  • In-person onboarding
  • Career growth pathways

Worth weighing

  • 100% remote role with candidates from the U.S. or Canada only, excluding Quebec
  • Role involves working through ambiguity and making pragmatic architectural decisions
  • Opportunity to redefine the role based on impact and initiative 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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