Remote- Backend AWS Developer
Aberdeen, Scotland
£72,000 - £90,000
Posted 1 day ago
About the role
Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack , both featuring scalable metrics ( Grafana Mimir ), logs ( Grafana Loki ), and traces ( Grafana Tempo ).
If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
Backend Engineer - Platform - Stacks
Application Core Services (AppCore) is a group within Platform, in the Foundations department. Foundations produces the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) and partners closely with our Cloud, Enterprise, and Grafana teams. com platform to engineer bespoke integrations and solutions that unify the diverse technical ecosystem of a modern software enterprise.
The team owns important domain areas that help keep both our customer workflows and internal business processes running smoothly. Our work includes maintaining the billing engine responsible for customer usage calculation, automating provisioning after a customer signs a contract, integrating with cloud marketplaces such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, and building and maintaining the user portal our customers rely on to manage their accounts.
We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex workflow and systems problems, improving reliability and developer experience, and building software that directly supports both customers and internal stakeholders.
As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a unique perspective to the software. Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities and collaborate across teams beyond their immediate scope.
A stack is the customer-facing Grafana Cloud environment that connects an organization to Grafana and the backend services it uses, including Mimir, Loki, Tempo, plugins, dashboards, data sources, and stack-level configuration.
When this domain works well, customers get reliable stack creation, safe configuration rollout, predictable migrations, and fewer manual operational interventions.
Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems, including the SSS backend, to track desired stack state, detect and repair drift across stack templates, grafana.com state, Hosted Grafana, and actual customer stack configuration
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 stacks online safely in new Grafana Cloud regions
Improve incident response and recovery paths for stack misalignment, reconciliation failures, plugin rollout issues, and Hosted Grafana integration failures
Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, OnCall improvements, and long-term simplification of stack operations
You will help own the production behavior of the systems you build. At Grafana, we actively embrace AI-assisted and agentic development practices, integrating these technologies into both our engineering workflows and the systems we deliver. We encourage our engineers to thoughtfully leverage AI tools to enhance every stage of the lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, documentation, and operations. We are seeking a Backend Engineer who thrives on building production systems where correctness, scalability, and operational clarity are paramount. As a remote-first organization, you should be comfortable collaborating asynchronously across time zones and taking full ownership of the critical systems powering Grafana Cloud. you will be expected to lead major projects, 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 related to stateful systems, eventual consistency, and reconciliation loops. Writing efficient, readable, and easy to maintain code
Coordinating with product and UX when needed
Participating in team decisions, such as roadmap planning and prioritization
You have at least 1 year of fully remote work experience
Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on
Have some experience contributing to the delivery of projects, from initial brainstorming to shipping a product to the customer.
You write clean, well-tested software that other engineers can understand, operate, and maintain
Familiarity with Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and exposure to infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
Bonus Points For:
Experience with TypeScript/Node.js
Experience with Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform, Flux, Argo, or similar deployment/configuration tooling
Experience with incident response involving configuration drift, partial failure, or cross-service state mismatch
Compensation & Rewards:
In United Kingdom, the compensation range for this role is GBP 72K - GBP 90K. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.
*Compensation ranges are country specific. 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
~ Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
~ Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
~ Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
~ Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
~ Balance 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 the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. LI-Remote
For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our .
About this listing
Screened by Joboru
This role passed our automated spam and quality filters and was active in our feed when last checked. Joboru is an aggregator — here is how we screen listings. If anything looks off, tell us.
Similar jobs you may like
Welfare Adviser
1 day agoCapital City College Group
Project Manager
1 day agoVerisk
Sky Engineer Satellite TV Installations Engineer
1 day agoOperations Resources
Operations Support Manager - Banking / Financial
1 day agoN P Associates
Crisis Resilience and Prevention Officer
1 day agoMalvern Hills and Wychavon District Councils
Trusts Fundraising Officer - Hybrid
1 day agoArthritis UK
Area Manager, Central Operations - 1 year Fixed Term Contract
1 day agoAmazon
Scrub/Anaesthetic Practitioner - RN/ODP
1 day agoRamsay Health Care
Area Manager, Fulfillment Center
1 day agoAmazon