Senior Backend Engineer, Grafana Labs
Grafana Partner Datasources
CA$153.7-184.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
Open for applications
Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$153.7-184.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unite data, no matter where it lives, and empower its users to analyze, take action, and make smart decisions.
Role
Who you are
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key. We are a distributed team (Western Europe to Eastern Americas), working remotely on a product that will be used by engineers all over the world – the ability to work on your own, and ship working code is crucial
- You are comfortable mentoring other team members, participating in design discussions and otherwise collaborating with the team while being friendly, kind, and respectful
- You are comfortable managing external stakeholder relationships, as well as balancing internal and external priorities. You are comfortable providing a technical perspective in calls with external partners
- You have professional experience working with Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud
- You have professional experience with Golang or a comparable programming language, and are comfortable working in both backend and frontend code
- You have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
- You value DevOps principles and design for your own team’s operations
- You have an active interest in the domain of software observability
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Partner Data Sources squad you will play a vital role in the development of data sources: plugins that provide visual query editors and the underlying mechanics to query and transform observability data for use in Grafana. The data sources owned by the Partner Data Sources squad are built in close partnership with the cloud service providers and independent software vendors responsible for the services these connect to
- Our group’s mission is to ensure that, through this work, as many users as possible are able to see the value of Grafana as quickly as possible by connecting to their data wherever it lives. We achieve this at scale, owning the deployment and operations of these data sources and supporting infrastructure on Grafana Cloud
- There are four additional data sources squads and we collaborate regularly on shared challenges like making it easier to build and maintain data sources, security vulnerability management, and improving operational observability and tooling
- We meet and collaborate regularly with cloud service providers and independent software vendors to align roadmaps and provide code review
- We provide technical assistance in customer support escalations involving our data sources
Our take
Observability plays a crucial role in software development, where dashboards are pivotal for monitoring the health of IT infrastructure across an organization. However, for developers, the frustration of spending unnecessary time navigating between different dashboards to find the latest information detracts from valuable programming time.
Grafana collaborates closely with its clients to create customizable observability platforms, striving to enhance efficiency in observability. Its offerings include cloud-based data structures, dashboards, API plugins, and collaboration tools. Currently, FGrafana boasts over 21M active instances and approximately 10M users globally, with a customer base exceeding 2,000, including prominent names like Bloomberg, PJ Morgan Chase, eBay, PayPal, and Sony.
While Grafana provides free plans with a simplified tool package, the Grafana Enterprise Stack offers customized observability solutions on a monthly subscription basis. The company's ongoing strategy revolves around continually improving Grafana to meet users' demands, enhancing functionality with each iteration, and fostering community engagement by enabling users to share their Grafana dashboards with the broader open-source community.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2024
$270m
SERIES D
Apr 2022
$240m
SERIES D
Total funding: $805.2m
Company benefits
- Vacation: Balance is key. Our team enjoys 30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. We also take a breather on a number of Grafana Shutdown Days each year
- Healthcare: We’re proud to provide health coverage or stipends for our colleagues in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, and India
- Retirement planning: There’s no time like the present to start saving for your future. We make employer contributions into the pension pots of our team members in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany
- Professional development: On top of a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend, Grafanistas have thousands of on-demand courses at their fingertips to help them grow professionally. Want to attend a conference or training? Go ahead. Just pass on what you learned
- Work location: Vast majority of our roles are fully remote, focused on hiring the best talent and allowing you to perform from the comfort of your home. If you fancy a change of scene, we’ll also reimburse you up to $175 a month for a personal co-working space
- Choice of tech: There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to the tech required to do your job. Choose the laptop and accessories you need when you join us, and we’ll refresh them every three years
- Mindfulness: When you join the team, you can sign up for a complimentary subscription to Headspace to take advantage of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation. Our wellbeing resource group also organize sessions run by fellow Grafanistas or external trainers
- Fond Perks: Grafanistas across the world receive access to Fond, a platform that provides access to pre-negotiated discounts on a wide variety of services including entertainment, food, and fitness
- Global Employee Assistance Program: We offer all team members a 100% confidential support service with 24/7 365 access to professionally qualified counsellors and specialists
Company values
- Share openly and default to transparency
- Respectfully empowered
- OSS is in our DNA
- We keep our commitments
- Seek diverse perspectives
- Don't let perfect get in the way
- Help each other thrive
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Raj Dutt
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently a Board Member at NSONE. Previously founded Voxel where they served as the CEO for 12 years. They also served as the Senior Vice President of Technology at Internap Network Services.
Torkel Ödegaard
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Mälardalen University with a Master's in Computer Science. Founder of Coding Instinct. Previously worked as a Consultant at H&M, Avega, and Ebay.
Anthony Wood
(Co-Founder)Previously worked at Visa and Voxel as a Senior Systems Engineer. They also have Systems Engineering axperience at PalVision and iiNet.
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