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# Backend Engineer – Platform – Stacks | Spain | Remote

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## About this role.

AI SummaryThis Backend Engineer role sits in Grafana Labs' AppCore Stacks squad, building control-plane systems that create, configure, reconcile, migrate, and operate Grafana Cloud customer stacks. The engineer will develop reliable distributed backend services in Go, manage desired-state and reconciliation workflows, and improve rollout, recovery, observability, and operational processes. The role requires collaboration across product, infrastructure, Hosted Grafana, support, and adjacent platform teams in a remote-first environment. Candidates should bring SaaS and distributed-systems experience, production ownership, Kubernetes exposure, and the ability to independently deliver safe iterative improvements. On-call participation and incident-response contributions are expected once the engineer is ready.

## Role DNA

A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description.

### Job Complexity

5/5EasyHard

### Pace & Pressure

4/5RelaxedFast-paced

### Autonomy Level

5/5GuidedFull ownership

### Communication Load

5/5IndependentCollaborative

AI insightThe role involves high-impact, stateful distributed systems where configuration drift, partial failures, and cross-service consistency issues can directly affect customer environments. It also requires leading projects independently while balancing reliability, rollout safety, operational response, and cross-functional alignment.

## Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader EU market for similar roles.

Estimated job medianBelow market€73,000EU market range€130k–€180k0€198k

AI insightThe disclosed Spain base-compensation range is EUR 65,000–81,000 yearly, with a midpoint of EUR 73,000. For comparison, the estimated US market base-salary range for a backend/platform engineer working on distributed systems is USD 130,000–180,000 yearly; this US range is an estimate and does not represent Grafana Labs' offer.

## Core skills

Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity.

[Golang](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Golang.md)[Distributed systems](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Distributed%20systems.md)[Microservices](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Microservices.md)[Kubernetes](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Kubernetes.md)[AWS](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AWS.md)[GCP](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=GCP.md)[Azure](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Azure.md)[Terraform](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Terraform.md)[Infrastructure as Code](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Infrastructure%20as%20Code.md)[Incident response](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Incident%20response.md)

Sample interview questionsHow would you design a reconciliation loop for customer stack configuration across several services?I would define a canonical desired state, collect observable actual state from each dependent system, and compare them through idempotent reconciliation steps. Each action would use durable status tracking, retries with backoff, clear ownership boundaries, and safeguards to prevent conflicting updates. I would also expose drift metrics, audit logs, alerts, and a manual recovery path for exceptional cases.

Describe how you would investigate a partial failure during a configuration rollout affecting customer stacks.

I would first scope the impact using rollout metadata, stack identifiers, dashboards, logs, and traces. I would halt or limit further rollout if needed, identify whether the failure is due to invalid desired state, an unavailable dependency, or a non-idempotent operation, then execute the documented rollback or repair path. After recovery, I would document the incident, improve alerts or runbooks, and add tests or reconciliation protections to prevent recurrence.

What practices do you use to make Go services reliable and maintainable in production?

I favor explicit interfaces, small focused packages, context-aware request handling, structured logging, metrics, tracing, and robust error wrapping. I write unit and integration tests around important business and failure paths, make external operations idempotent where possible, and use configuration validation and safe deployment controls. I also ensure operational documentation is treated as part of the feature rather than an afterthought.

How would you safely introduce a new Grafana Cloud region or cluster into an existing provisioning workflow?

I would model the region as explicit configuration and validate prerequisites such as infrastructure readiness, capacity, credentials, networking, and service dependencies. I would introduce it behind controlled rollout gates, test provisioning with representative workloads, and verify observability and recovery procedures before broad enablement. A staged rollout with clear success criteria, rollback capability, and ownership for operational support would reduce customer risk.

How do you communicate technical trade-offs to product and adjacent engineering teams when requirements are ambiguous?

I frame the decision around customer impact, reliability, delivery time, operational cost, and future extensibility. I present a small set of viable options with assumptions, risks, and a recommended incremental path, using diagrams or written proposals when helpful. I seek early feedback, document the decision, and make progress visible so stakeholders can align before implementation becomes expensive to change.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, 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](http://grafana.com) and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/) and [X](https://twitter.com/grafana).

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.

### Backend Engineer – Platform – Stacks

This role is available for candidates located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland and Sweden.

The Opportunity:

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. Our team develops the essential systems driving Grafana’s business operations. We utilize the grafana.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. AppCore is made up of multiple squads, each focused on one or more of these domains. 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.

This is a team working at the intersection of product, platform, and business operations. The systems we build are critical to how Grafana scales. 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.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The AppCore Stacks squad owns the systems that create, configure, reconcile, migrate, and operate Grafana Cloud stacks at scale. 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.

Our work sits at the intersection of product, platform, and operations. We build the control-plane services and workflows that keep stack state aligned across grafana.com, Stack State Service (SSS), Hosted Grafana, cloud regions, and the underlying Grafana Cloud infrastructure. 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
* Collaborate across SSS, grafana.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
* Partner with Product, Hosted Grafana, Infrastructure, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads on customer-impacting stack lifecycle work
* 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. That includes improving runbooks, dashboards, alerts, reconciliation safety, rollout controls, and recovery procedures. You should be comfortable debugging across service boundaries and making careful changes in systems that affect customer stacks

What Makes You a Great Fit:

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 also look for strategic opportunities to embed agentic capabilities within our services to eliminate toil, bolster reliability, and ensure that complex customer workflows remain resilient and safe.

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. Our team is small and operates with a high degree of independence; 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. We value engineers who can take ambiguous lifecycle requirements and transform them into explicit, modular solutions. You should be adept at breaking down complex systems work into safe, iterative increments while clearly communicating technical tradeoffs to both internal stakeholders and adjacent product teams.

Some things you might be expected to do could include:

* Writing efficient, readable, and easy to maintain code
* Implementing new microservices or systems
* Collaborating with teammates and other departments to reach consensus on proposed solutions
* Coordinating with product and UX when needed
* Responding to customer requests and feedback
* When ready, participating in our follow-the-sun OnCall rotation
* Participating in team decisions, such as roadmap planning and prioritization

Requirements:

* You have at least 1 year of fully remote work experience
* You have some experience working on a SaaS platform and are familiar with common distributed systems concepts (e.g., scalability, multi-tenancy, HA).
* Have professional experience with Golang and be willing to work across both backend service and application code
* 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
* Can take on well-defined tasks, break them down, and execute iteratively to deliver working solutions and gather feedback.
* You are willing to collaborate across teams and ensure your work is aligned with the needs of other squads and external stakeholders.
* Familiarity with Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and exposure to infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.).
* Experience participating in blameless incident response and contributing to post-incident reviews.

Bonus Points For:

* Experience with TypeScript/Node.js
* Experience with Kubernetes control-plane patterns, operators, reconcilers, or desired-state systems
* Experience with Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform, Flux, Argo, or similar deployment/configuration tooling
* Experience working on SaaS provisioning, tenancy, regional expansion, plugin rollout, or customer lifecycle systems
* Experience with incident response involving configuration drift, partial failure, or cross-service state mismatch

Compensation & Rewards:

In Spain the Base compensation range for this role is EU 65K – EU 81K. 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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