Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

• 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
• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key
• For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful
• We operate by consensus, you can contribute to a discussion but then commit to the team decision
• You are eager to learn and grow
• Our team is currently looking to double in size over the next year
• There is a lot of room for growth and development, and the team has quite a lot of knowledge to share for those who are willing to learn
• You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows
• 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
• At the same time, you know how to recognize ideas and solutions that bring the biggest value to them and have the biggest impact on their experience
• You approach development holistically
• The team owns the full life cycle of our code; from writing design docs, to looking at community feedback, and integration testing
• We appreciate engineers who enjoy looking at the big picture, and also notice the details of the brush strokes
• You have some experience with operating your code, and the intricacies thereof
• Since a lot of operators and developers use our software, having some grounding in both of these spaces really helps us with building better software for our users
• Have solid experience with Go
• Good understanding of storage solutions with an emphasis on relational databases like MySQL, SQLite, and Postgres
• Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on
• Have some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming ideas to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• Have experience with mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment
• 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
• Can take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve tight learning loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks

Desirable

• We are the team that is responsible for Ingestion Paths, Pipelines, and services for Observability
• We route, process, and transform data that is being ingested into our backend databases, to give the data value to the end user
• Work with your team to deliver new functionality, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your career objectives
• 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
• Regularly sharing ideas and knowledge across a vast array of technical ideologies and mindsets
• Working closely with the other squads in the Observability