Staff Backend Engineer, Grafana Labs

• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer focused
• We build everything with our users in mind
• You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
• Solid experience with the Go programming language
• Experience developing using Kubernetes API Patterns such as controllers and operators
• Experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Desirable

• The Grafana Search & Storage squad is building Grafana’s next generation storage layer
• An important part of our App Platform movement, which will allow developers to write revolutionary applications that take advantage of all the data Grafana can hold, our Unified Storage component will allow developers to interact with data directly using Kubernetes-inspired design patterns like Operators
• Besides building and operating the Unified Storage component at massive scale as a part of our Grafana Cloud platform, the team is also responsible for two closely related end-user features that form the backbone of the experience of finding and organizing information in Grafana: Search, which allows any user to find any resource they’re looking for and Folders, which allows teams to self organize their content in a hierarchical topology reminiscent of file systems
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system
• As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must