Staff Backend Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

• You are a motivated self-starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer-focused and passionate about creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• You can take on complex challenges and break them down into short feedback loops: analyse, design, and build modular solutions; deliver MVPs; gather data and feedback; and progress iteratively
• You communicate and collaborate effectively with teammates in a fully remote setup
• You have solid experience with at least one programming language. Familiarity with Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, or a similar language translates well
• You have some experience delivering projects from gathering requirements and brainstorming ideas through to shipping a product to customers, working in a self-driven way
• You have some experience developing software that runs in the cloud or experience with systems engineering
• You have experience writing clean, robust, performant software that others can maintain easily

Desirable

• Grafana Cloud is a composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana, allowing customers to use open-source observability software without installing, maintaining, and scaling their own observability stack
• The Databases team owns Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles. These open-source databases are also offered as a Grafana Cloud service and as an on-premise solution. They are multi-tenant distributed systems implemented in Go and run on Kubernetes across major cloud providers
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning their reliability, performance, and availability
• Take an active role in influencing the 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 through to operations once they are in customers’ hands
• Contribute to open-source projects, including projects outside your team’s direct scope
• Participate in your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you run
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team
• Build your skills by deepening your understanding of the cloud product and customers, and learning the codebase of a large distributed system
• The engineering organisation is largely remote and uses video calls to provide guidance and meet regularly; an independent attitude and good communication skills are important
• You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity