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Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X . We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. Staff Backend Engineer, Alerting This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applications from Germany. The Opportunity: The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project (link) , and our mission is to provide the most in-depth way to let users manage their alerts. The backend-focused team works closely with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-prem and at infinite scale in Cloud. Our domain is quite large, so to get an idea of the kind of work we do, here are some projects we recently worked on: Build distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts Unify Alerting setup and delivery to work the same for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts Build distributed systems to scale alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production. Grafana Alerting is trusted by major organizations worldwide, monitoring essential medical devices and critical infrastructure. We thrive on collective creativity and diverse perspectives, every team member is encouraged to contribute ideas that shape our product into a dependable tool. What You’ll Be Doing: Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives  Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve. Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must. What Makes You a Great Fit: You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action You are customer focused We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customer