Senior Backend Engineer, Grafana Labs
Grafana Enterprise
CA$146.4-183k
Offers equity
The open and composable observability platform
Job no longer available
The open and composable observability platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$146.4-183k
Offers equity
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
- As we are remote-first and our engineering organization, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so strong teamwork and excellent written and interpersonal communication skills are a must
- You work well as a communicative member of a team of engineering professionals
- You earn trust by saying what you mean and doing what you say
- You are customer focused. You start with the customers’ needs and work backwards
- You insist on the highest standards and work to develop the skills and knowledge of your fellow team members
- You take on complex challenges and break them down into digestible problems and leverage your team and organization to deliver
- You design modular solutions, deliver minimum loveable products, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
- Professional experience delivering and operating distributed systems in production in at least one language: preferably Go, but knowledge ofJava, TypeScript, Python, C, C++ or Rust is also advantageous
- Experience delivering multiple complex software projects end-to-end: from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer and operating it on their behalf in production
- Professional experience with major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
Desirable
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Some experience using Grafana software or cloud services, regardless of scale. We particularly want to hear about hobby or passion projects where you’ve used Grafana
- Familiarity with being on-call and managing production operations for business and/or mission critical distributed information systems
What the job involves
- The Grafana Enterprise team delivers features and solutions for medium and large enterprises who operate the Grafana Enterprise product on their own infrastructure. Our customers include software engineers, site reliability engineers, medium, large and global enterprises and leading global cloud service providers
- We’re a diverse team of expert technologists working remotely from around the globe. Our meetings tend to happen between 14:00 and 17:00 UTC. We measure ourselves by our openness, helpfulness, and our shared successes
- Earning the trust of our customers to further Grafana’s “big tent” philosophy of data accessibility and to meet clear business objectives
- Leading the development of features for people like you
- Driving continuous improvement of our engineering culture through words and actions
- Driving projects from initial ideation to production
- Contributing to projects that impact the experience of Grafana operators around the world
- Owning the experience of our customers by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations
- Hiring and developing the best engineers to build the future of Grafana
- Developing your skills as a thought leader to drive continuous improvement of engineering and operational practices across Grafana Labs
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, Grafana boasts over 25M users globally, with a customer base exceeding 5,000, 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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Insights
49% employee growth in 12 months
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
- Paid parental leave: Grafana offers paid parental leave to all eligible new parents. This offers Grafanistas time to bond with and care for their children in the first year after birth or adoption
- 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 HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
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 experience at PalVision and iiNet.
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