Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
Grafana k6 Cloud Data
$123.9-148.7k
+ Equity + Bonus for eligible roles
More information about location
Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
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Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$123.9-148.7k
+ Equity + Bonus for eligible roles
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
- Good at DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Good familiarity with Python (Go is a plus)
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good technical communication skills
- Familiarity with modern software engineering processes and practices
- Enthusiasm about large-scale distributed systems
- Enthusiasm about test automation (performance tests, functional tests, etc)
- Pair up with a seasoned mentor
Desirable
- Experience working with Go, and/or JavaScript
- Experience with AWS, Grafana stack
- Experience building event-driven systems
- Experience working with time-series data
- Affinity for developing testing frameworks
What the job involves
- The Reliability Testing department of Grafana consists of Grafana Cloud k6 (performance testing) and Grafana Synthetic Monitoring, both of which are based on the k6 OSS tool
- We are pushing the state-of-the-art in our industry, creating open-source tools focused on a great developer experience
- K6 was built to reinvent the engineering principles around performance testing with a mission to empower engineers to build highly resilient and scalable systems
- You will be a part of one of the teams that focuses on Grafana Cloud k6, our commercial performance testing product built around the OSS k6, targeted at users wanting to run performance tests at scale
- Our SaaS offering allows customers to load test their systems by running distributed tests from 20+ regions worldwide, using hundreds of thousands of virtual users sending millions of requests per second
- We ingest huge volumes of data generated by k6, which can be used to view, correlate, and analyze metrics from each test
- K6 is a product used by other engineers, and as such, we are looking for people enthusiastic about building high-quality tools they would want to use themselves
- Due to our small teams and fast development pace, you will have a substantial and immediate impact on how the end product is architected, and how the engineering team operates
- Most importantly, you will work with competent colleagues and will be able to expand your knowledge and skills in different directions
- The team you'll work with (k6 Cloud Data team) is developing the backbone of our cloud system and focuses on data processing and efficient storage of the vast amount of data generated by a test distributed in the cloud environment
- It is also owning customer data and other integrations with Grafana cloud
- Pair up with a seasoned mentor to help you develop your skills
- Work with your team to develop, architect and operate large-scale distributed systems and storage solutions
- Participate in design reviews that shape the future of Grafana Cloud k6
- Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices
- Improve application reliability and observability
- Collaborate with other teams on delivering cross-functional features to the cloud product
- Participate in the On-Call rotation and ensure the high availability of our product
- Contribute to the documentation and/or educational content
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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