Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry | Sweden | Remote at Grafana Labs

This is a high-impact role for an experienced backend leader who excels in distributed systems and observability. You should be a Go specialist (or expert in languages like Rust/C++) with a deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and high-scale data streaming. As this is a "Staff" level position, you’ll be expected to drive technical strategy and mentor other engineers across the Databases department. The role offers a fully remote lifestyle within Sweden, backed by a mature open-source culture. Compensation for Sweden-based candidates is SEK 836k – 1.045M, plus equity and performance bonuses. A unique highlight is the company’s embrace of "agentic development," providing a dedicated budget and access to top-tier AI models (GPT-4, Claude Opus) to accelerate your workflow. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Have a proven track record of shipping and maintaining large-scale distributed systems. * Are comfortable owning the reliability, cost-optimization, and SLOs for critical telemetry databases. * Enjoy a "bias towards action" and can influence technical roadmaps without formal authority. * Have experience with Go and messaging infrastructure like Kafka.