Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform | Sweden | Remote
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Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Backend Engineer will focus on transforming Grafana's core architecture to support a scalable, multi-tenant observability app platform. Key skills include extensive experience with SaaS platforms and a strong understanding of cloud applications, particularly in integrating OSS and proprietary tools. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers who thrive in fast-paced, innovative environments and are passionate about open-source technology. Grafana Labs fosters a collaborative culture, emphasizing transparency and autonomy as it scales its global operations.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 3 months ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Grafana Labs's career page.
- Grafana Labs has 160 other open roles including Regional Marketing Manager | Western Europe | Remote, Events Manager | EMEA | Remote, Events Manager | EMEA | Remote.
- 692 active SaaS roles on Joblaze right now.
- 175 active Grafana roles on Joblaze right now.
- 6 active Grafana Cloud roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$165,000).
- Pays more than 9% of the 319 salaried SaaS roles we track (median $166,000). See SaaS salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform | Sweden | Remote role remote?
- Yes — Grafana Labs lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Grafana Labs lists SEK 878,578–SEK 1,054,294 for this role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise Stack, Grafana Loki, Grafana Mimir, Grafana Tempo.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Grafana Labs targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform | Sweden | Remote role at Grafana Labs.
From the original posting
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.
This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Ireland only.
The Opportunity:
As our Cloud / Grafana-as-a-service business continues to grow, we've started to change Grafana's core architecture to be fully multi-tenant and scalable, as well as a solid platform for our opinionated Cloud apps.
We're looking for someone with a lot of experience with SaaS platforms at scale. We are turning Grafana into a proper observability app platform where OSS and proprietary apps can directly tap into dashboards, alerts, incidents, and telemetry and deliver even more integrated experiences.
In Sweden, the compensation range for this role is SEK 878,578 - SEK 1,054,294. 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. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
- 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.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- 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.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- 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: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
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