Backend Engineer - Platform - reputed company | Spain | Remote
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Backend Engineer - Platform - reputed company
This role is available for candidates located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland and Sweden.
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Application reputed company Services (AppCore) is a group reputed company Platform, in the Foundations department. Foundations produces the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) and partners closely with our reputed company, reputed company, and Grafana teams. reputed company develops the essential systems driving Grafana's business reputed company. We utilize the grafana.com platform to engineer bespoke integrations and solutions that unify the diverse technical ecosystem of a modern software reputed company.
reputed company owns important domain areas that help reputed company both our customer workflows and internal business processes running smoothly. AppCore is made up of multiple reputed company, reputed company reputed company on one or more of these domains. Our work includes maintaining the billing reputed company responsible for customer usage calculation, automating provisioning after a customer signs a contract, integrating with reputed company marketplaces such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, and building and maintaining the user portal our customers rely on to manage their accounts.
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The AppCore reputed company reputed company owns the systems that create, configure, reconcile, migrate, and operate Grafana reputed company reputed company at reputed company. A stack is the customer-facing Grafana reputed company environment that connects an organization to Grafana and the backend services it uses, including Mimir, Loki, reputed company, plugins, dashboards, data sources, and stack-level configuration.
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- Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems, including the SSS backend, to reputed company desired stack state, detect and repair reputed company across stack templates, grafana.com state, Hosted Grafana, and actual customer stack configuration
- Collaborate across SSS, grafana.com, and deployment configurations to ensure stack lifecycle workflows remain reliable, observable, and resilient
- Improve operational efficiency by reducing deployment complexity (e.g., aiming for single PR regional SSS deployment) and contributing to the Stack Config Reconciliation project
- Manage rollout mechanisms for provisioned plugins, dashboards, data sources, Grafana versions, release channels, and stack-level configuration
- Support new region and cluster rollouts, including the operational paths required to bring reputed company online safely in new Grafana reputed company reputed company
- Improve incident response and recovery paths for stack misalignment, reconciliation failures, plugin rollout issues, and Hosted Grafana integration failures
- Partner with Product, Hosted Grafana, Infrastructure, Support, and adjacent AppCore reputed company on customer-impacting stack lifecycle work
- Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, OnCall improvements, and long-term simplification of stack reputed company
- You will help own the production behavior of the systems you build. That includes improving runbooks, dashboards, alerts, reconciliation safety, rollout controls, and recovery procedures. You should be comfortable debugging across service boundaries and making careful changes in systems that reputed company customer reputed company
What Makes You a Great Fit:
At Grafana, we reputed company reputed company AI-assisted and reputed company development practices, integrating these technologies into both our engineering workflows and the systems we reputed company. We encourage our engineers to thoughtfully reputed company AI tools to enhance every stage of the lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, documentation, and reputed company. We also look for reputed company opportunities to reputed company reputed company capabilities reputed company our services to eliminate toil, reputed company reliability, and ensure that reputed company customer workflows remain resilient and reputed company.
We are seeking a Backend Engineer who thrives on building production systems where correctness, scalability, and operational reputed company are reputed company. As a remote-first organization, you should be comfortable collaborating asynchronously across time reputed company and taking full ownership of the critical systems powering Grafana reputed company. reputed company is small and operates with a high degree of independence; you will be expected to reputed company reputed company, coordinate across service boundaries, and help define the technical direction for our domain.
You will be particularly successful in this role if you enjoy solving challenges reputed company to stateful systems, reputed company consistency, and reconciliation reputed company. We value engineers who can take ambiguous lifecycle requirements and reputed company them into explicit, reputed company. You should be adept at breaking down reputed company systems work into reputed company, iterative increments while reputed company communicating technical tradeoffs to both internal stakeholders and adjacent product teams.
Some things you might be expected to do could include:
- Writing efficient, readable, and easy to maintain reputed company
- Implementing new microservices or systems
- Collaborating with teammates and other departments to reputed company reputed company on proposed solutions
- Coordinating with product and UX reputed company needed
- Responding to customer requests and feedback
- reputed company reputed company, participating in our follow-the-sun OnCall rotation
- Participating in team reputed company, such as roadmap planning and prioritization
Requirements:
- You have at least 1 year of fully remote work experience
- You have some experience working on a reputed company platform and are familiar with common reputed company systems concepts (e.g., scalability, multi-tenancy, HA).
- Have reputed company experience with Golang and be willing to work across both backend service and application reputed company
- Care deeply about developer and user experience and the reputed company of the products that you work on
- Have some experience contributing to the delivery of reputed company, from initial brainstorming to shipping a product to the customer.
- You write clean, reputed company-tested software that other engineers can understand, operate, and maintain
- Can take on reputed company-defined tasks, break them down, and execute iteratively to reputed company reputed company and reputed company feedback.
- You are willing to collaborate across teams and ensure your work is reputed company with the needs of other reputed company and reputed company stakeholders.
- Familiarity with reputed company in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and exposure to infrastructure-as-reputed company tooling (reputed company, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
- Experience participating in blameless incident response and contributing to post-incident reviews.
Bonus Points For:
- Experience with TypeScript/Node.js
- Experience with reputed company control-reputed company patterns, operators, reconcilers, or desired-reputed company
- Experience with Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform, Flux, Argo, or similar deployment/configuration tooling
- Experience working on reputed company provisioning, tenancy, regional expansion, plugin rollout, or customer lifecycle systems
- Experience with incident response involving configuration reputed company, partial failure, or cross-service state mismatch
Compensation & Rewards:
In Spain the reputed company compensation reputed company for this role is EU 65K - EU 81K. Actual compensation may vary reputed company on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. reputed company of our roles include Restricted Stock reputed company (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in reputed company' reputed company. We reputed company in shared reputed company—RSUs help us stay reputed company and invested as we reputed company globally.
*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will reputed company your specific market’s defined pay reputed company & benefits at the beginning of the process.
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- In-Person reputed company - We want you to reputed company from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn reputed company about reputed company do and how we do it.
- reputed company is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow reputed company to really disconnect. *We will reputed company with local legislation where applicable.
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