Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases | USA | Remote at Grafana Labs
$174,986–$209,983from the description
Jul 2, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level backend engineering role within the Adaptive Telemetry group, which builds tools that help users control and reduce the volume of metrics, logs, traces, and profiles stored across Grafana's telemetry databases. Day-to-day work spans architectural design, cross-functional project delivery, reliability ownership (SLOs/SLIs, incident response), and mentoring senior engineers. Suits experienced distributed-systems engineers comfortable leading large initiatives in a fully remote environment, ideally coding in Go.
Staff level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 15,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,400–22,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The JD names Go as the primary language but explicitly states that Python, C, C++, Rust, or 'similar' translate well — these are captured as alternatives rather than separate hard gates.
Kafka, Prometheus, and Grafana appear under a 'familiarity with' framing in what reads as a preferred/nice-to-have block ('Experience with messaging and telemetry'), so they are marked preferred.
No minimum total years of experience is stated; seniority is assessed from scope (cross-team technical leadership, architectural ownership, mentoring senior engineers) which clearly supports Staff level, consistent with the explicit 'Staff' title.
Compensation is quoted as a US base salary range; the posting notes that candidates in other locations will have country-specific ranges discussed separately.
The caller has declared this fully remote with a national candidate pool; no metro is inferred.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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