Senior 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 can 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 squad. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
• Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Desirable

• The Mimir Query squad owns the read path components of Mimir, focusing on optimizing the customer experience (fast queries) and resilience across a wide variety of query workloads
• A Mimir Query engineer has various work streams. They likely are engaged in a larger project with another engineer, and likely mixing in some performance and reliability improvements discovered through operating the system in production
• They are also responsible for reviewing PRs and design documents from other engineers in the squad, shepherding automated release rollouts, and participating in the follow-the-sun on-call rotation for their 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 follow-the-sun 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
• Our tech stack is mostly made up of services written in Go, running on multiple Kubernetes clusters that leverage Cloud object storage