Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting

Salary: £43,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements

• We are looking for candidates in the UK for this remote opportunity.
• You should have solid experience with at least one programming language; we use Go, and familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust, or similar is also relevant.
• You should have some experience delivering projects from gathering requirements and brainstorming ideas through to shipping a product to customers in a self-driven way.
• You should have some experience developing software that runs in the cloud or some experience with systems engineering.
• You should have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easy for others to maintain.
• You should be a motivated self-starter with a bias toward action.
• You should be customer focused and passionate about creating intuitive products that meet customer needs.
• You should be able to break down complex challenges into modular solutions and work iteratively with short feedback loops.
• You should have strong collaboration and communication skills for a fully remote team environment.
• You should be independent and comfortable working in a remote-first engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Influence our roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Work with your team to deliver new features and use results to iterate and improve.
• Drive projects from initial ideation through to operations once they are in customers hands.
• Contribute to other open-source projects that may sit outside your immediate team scope.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems with ownership of reliability, performance, and availability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you run.
• Mentor and support team members, contribute to design discussions, and collaborate closely with the team.
• Learn new skills by deepening your understanding of our cloud product, our customers, and a large distributed codebase.

Technologies

• Backend
• Cloud
• Grafana
• Support
• Java
• Python
• Rust
• Salesforce
• AI
• DevOps
• GitHub
• HTTP
• Prometheus

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We are Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud. We build Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, to help organizations understand and act on disparate data at scale. We are a 100% remote company with more than 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors, and trusted by more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce. This is a remote Senior Backend Engineer, Alerting role on our Grafana Alerting squad, and we are interested in applications from the UK. We offer a globally distributed, collaborative culture with transparency, autonomy, trust, career growth pathways, in-person onboarding, and a global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days. The UK compensation range for this role is GBP 91,755 to GBP 110,106, and the role also includes RSUs.

last updated 28 week of 2026