Senior Backend Engineer, Grafana Labs
Grafana Incident Response Management
€80.6-100.7k
+ Equity + Bonus for eligible roles
Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
Open for applications
Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
€80.6-100.7k
+ Equity + Bonus for eligible roles
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 and understand the importance of communication
- You enjoy working as a team. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We support each other, defaulting to mentoring and teaching
- You have solid experience as a Software Engineer building full stack applications. Ideally, you feel comfortable working with either Golang or Python and React
- You know how to transform ideas into working code – you are able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself
- You enjoy learning, growing, and supporting others to do the same
- You care deeply about user experience and the quality of the products that you work on
- You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technical solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows
- You care and value code maintainability, readability and testing
- You have experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
- You understand the implications of technical decisions, how they’ll affect the codebase and the team
- You enjoy being part of the community. Community is part of our core, and interacting with the community is a day-to-day thing for us, whether that community is internal or external
- You are able to communicate clearly in written and spoken English
Desirable
- Backend technologies: Strong expertise in Golang or Python and familiarity with other backend languages is valued. Experience with Django is a plus
- Containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- CI/CD and DevOps: Knowledge of building pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategies
- Monitoring and observability: Familiarity with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability platforms
- Frontend technologies (nice to have): TypeScript, React, Mobx, and Webpack
What the job involves
- We’re responsible for our IRM solutions that aim to make it easy to detect, respond, and learn from incidents with minimal effort
- This includes our OnCall Cloud offering, our Incident Cloud offering, and our IRM mobile application
- We’re a cross-functional team that works closely with Product, Design, and Documentation to define our goals and build our solutions
- Coding new features, enhancing the operational experience of the systems you develop, and iteratively improving them based on production insights
- Contributing to and reviewing design documents
- Taking an active role in shaping the team’s roadmap
- Collaborating with different teams across the organization
- Owning the experience of our customers by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and a separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations
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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