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US 6w PTO

  • Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability.
  • Collaborate with your team to deliver new features and iterate based on results.

Go Kubernetes Distributed Systems Observability Microservices

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$87,480–$110,160/yr
Europe 6w PTO

  • Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems for Grafana Cloud stacks at scale.
  • Collaborate across teams to improve reliability, deployment complexity, and incident response.
  • Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, and long-term simplification of stack operations.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open source observability platform Grafana, providing a fully managed observability cloud. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, the company fosters a global, collaborative culture rooted in open source principles.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Own features end-to-end across the stack, from backend Go services to frontend TypeScript/React.
  • Design and evolve systems for scheduling, probe lifecycle, and telemetry ingestion at scale.
  • Build cross-product and AI-assisted workflows that integrate Synthetic Monitoring into the Grafana Cloud platform.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open source observability cloud, helping organizations see and act on their data. With over 1,600 employees across 40+ countries, the company fosters an open, collaborative culture.

Germany UK Spain Sweden Ireland 6w PTO

  • You will own meaningful projects end to end, from concept to rollout, including design, delivery, operations, and customer follow-up.
  • You will design, build, and operate core components of a distributed database, making trade-offs on performance, cost, and complexity.
  • You will drive operational excellence, partner across Grafana, contribute to open source, and participate in on-call rotation.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, providing a fully managed platform that helps organizations see, understand, and act on their data using AI. With over 35 million users and 7,000+ customers, we are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors and known for our open-source legacy and global collaborative culture.

US Canada 6w PTO

  • Ship features end to end, from the UI to backend services and dashboards.
  • Move between parts of the stack, working with React, Go, and Jsonnet as needed.
  • Own projects from problem statement to production, including user feedback and success measurement.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, providing a flexible, scalable platform for monitoring and analyzing data. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, the company fosters a remote-first, collaborative culture built on transparency, autonomy, and trust.

Spain Sweden UK Ireland Germany 6w PTO

  • Build core backend services for context ingestion, indexing, and retrieval in a new AI-native data intelligence system.
  • Design scalable multi-tenant SaaS architecture and agent-facing APIs for reliable context retrieval.
  • Operate what you build using observability tools, and contribute to technical direction and architecture.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, Grafana, which helps organizations monitor and act on their data. They are a 100% remote company with over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, fostering a culture of transparency, collaboration, and open source.

$217,000–$303,900/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Work collaboratively with a team to create and maintain the foundational platform for Reddit's infrastructure.
  • Deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components.
  • Contribute upstream changes to open source projects and share on-call responsibilities.

Reddit is a community of communities, built on shared interests, passion, and trust. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information, employing a flexible-first workforce that values open-source contributions.

$182,000–$217,000/yr
United States 6w PTO

  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for a portfolio of Grafana customers, designing and guiding their observability maturity journey.
  • Conduct regular technical reviews, health checks, and root cause analysis to drive adoption and ensure customer success.
  • Act as the voice of the customer internally, shaping product feedback and roadmap priorities while building long-term strategic relationships.

Grafana Labs builds the open source observability platform Grafana and its fully managed cloud service. The company has over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, serving more than 7,000 customers including major enterprises, and fosters a remote-first, transparent, and innovation-driven culture.

$163,000–$263,670/yr
US

  • Design, build, and operate the distributed systems that deliver feature-flag configuration to LaunchDarkly SDKs.
  • Own and improve the reliability, latency, and scalability of our streaming and polling infrastructure.
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues while sharing the team's on-call rotation.

LaunchDarkly builds a feature management platform that enables safe and gradual software releases. The company is growing and fosters a humble, open, collaborative culture.

Ireland

  • Design, build, and operate data and analytics systems supporting advanced model development workflows.
  • Own the complete lifecycle of experiment data, including modeling, ingestion, retrieval, and analysis.
  • Develop high-performance, scalable data infrastructure supporting increasing scale and reliability requirements.

The company focuses on building foundational data and analytics infrastructure for advanced AI research and development. They have a globally distributed team with a people-first culture focused on collaboration and innovation.

$172,000–$242,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Own and scale distributed systems for orchestration, APIs, and data paths.
  • Apply query-engine expertise to optimize work execution and data movement.
  • Exercise strong technical judgment on ambiguous problems.

Prefect builds and operates resilient, Pythonic orchestration and MCP platforms used for mission-critical workloads. This remote-first company fosters a supportive, high-performance culture that empowers team members to do their best work.

Global

  • Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated environments.
  • Build innovative deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, including disconnected environments.
  • Collaborate with Security, Dataplane, and Infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with NIST and FedRAMP frameworks.

ClickHouse is a fast-growing private cloud company offering real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. With over 3,000 customers and a $400M Series D, the company fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration.

$160,000–$200,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Deliver production-ready Temporal implementations by co-building workflows with customer and partner engineering teams.
  • Identify and remove early activation blockers and establish operational standards.
  • Define observability, reliability, and deployment strategies for production systems.

Temporal is an open source programming model that simplifies code, makes applications more reliable, and helps developers focus on delivering features faster. The company is mission-driven, building a team that values curiosity, drive, collaboration, genuineness, and humility.

Global Unlimited PTO 18w maternity 12w paternity

  • Own features end-to-end, from design through implementation and iteration.
  • Design and build backend systems in Go with REST/gRPC APIs for entitlements and policies.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers.

Chainguard provides hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software. It is venture-backed by leading investors and serves Fortune 500 enterprises like Anduril, Canva, and OpenAI.

Global

  • Develop and enhance open source tools for MongoDB, focusing on the ClusterSync for MongoDB (PCSM) and Backup for MongoDB (PBM) projects written in Go.
  • Work on core replication engine, fault tolerance at scale, sharded cluster support, and performance optimization for large production clusters.
  • Contribute to backup, restore, and point-in-time recovery across replica sets and sharded clusters, integrating with cloud storage and maintaining release quality through tests and CI.

Percona provides open source database software, support, and services to enable innovation. The company is a remote-only, globally dispersed workforce with colleagues in over 50 countries, offering a collaborative culture where ideas are welcome.

Global

  • Design, build, and operate Go services powering core APIs and data access paths across HTTP and gRPC.
  • Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of services, including handling growing traffic and data volumes.
  • Contribute to code reviews, technical design discussions, and mentor other engineers to raise the technical bar.

Brightfield provides an AI-powered workforce analytics platform that helps large companies manage their extended workforce. We are a fully remote team of data-driven innovators, trusted by the Global 2000 since 2006.

United States Canada UK Ireland Poland

  • Design and develop backend features end-to-end, from technical design through production rollout.
  • Architect and implement backend changes supporting long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Investigate production workloads to identify and resolve scalability bottlenecks, including database access and concurrency issues.

Jobgether is a platform that uses AI-powered matching to connect candidates with job opportunities. They process applications and share top-fitting candidates with hiring companies, with a focus on efficiency and data privacy.

India

  • Maintain observability platform and introduce observability on new projects.
  • Implement automated management features and configure solutions per security processes.
  • Manage CI systems and pipelines, and design and implement infrastructure.

Lingaro is a global technology company providing data, cloud, and DevOps solutions. With over 1,500 employees across 7 sites, they foster a diverse and inclusive culture.

United States

  • Design and develop high-performance backend services using Go.
  • Architect scalable distributed systems and microservices with a focus on reliability and observability.
  • Mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and resolve complex production challenges.

Global

  • Lead technical design and execution of major products, features, and engineering initiatives.
  • Stay hands-on with coding, code review, debugging, and production problem-solving.
  • Mentor engineers and set a high bar for system design, reliability, and technical excellence.

Kira is the leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia, building mobile-first financial tools to make money smart, reliable, and within reach. With over 20 nationalities working globally and remotely, we are passionate builders redefining financial applications for everyone.

Switzerland

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-native backend services using Golang within a modern microservices architecture.
  • Develop and operate distributed systems deployed on Kubernetes across major cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.
  • Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of new product features and backend services from concept through production.

A fast-paced, remote-first engineering company building scalable cloud-native platforms for enterprise applications. The team is collaborative, transparent, and mission-driven, with a focus on impactful technology.