Staff Backend Engineer, Grafana Labs

• As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is entirely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude, good communication skills, and transparency are a must
• Strong 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but do not require candidates with Go experience. Long term experience in any major language (Python, .NET, Java, Rust, etc) with a willingness to learn Go is acceptable
• Demonstrated experience working with and monitoring Kubernetes in a production environment
• Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner
• Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, setting technical direction and leading project teams
• Experience with distributed systems
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management

Desirable

• We are the team behind Grafana k6, Grafana Cloud k6, and Grafana Cloud Synthetics, used by teams globally to ensure resilient, high-performing systems
• This opportunity is with the synthetics squad, who build and operate our monitoring product: a multi-tenant distributed system implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across all major Cloud service providers (GCP, Azure, AWS), running billions of synthetic tests each month
• Staff Software Engineers at Grafana have a large amount of experience across multiple areas. They are able to estimate, plan, coordinate and deliver large tasks spanning multiple systems. They actively coach and mentor other team members in their team and are able to identify and resolve issues with technology and product processes
• We define senior roles via the scope of their business impact more than via their expertise or their specific activities
• The most important thing we are looking for in an engineer is the ability to take ownership. You will need to drive technical implementations working across engineering teams and departments, contribute to business conversations, and help shape the long-term strategy
• You’ll bring your passion for observability and software engineering expertise to help us take synthetic monitoring capabilities within Grafana Cloud to the next level. This will include working across products including Synthetics, Frontend Observability, Grafana k6, and Grafana Cloud k6
• Design and implement high-quality, scalable services to be consumed by multiple Grafana Cloud products
• Work with product teams, in addition to design and docs, to develop features that align with wider product strategy and customer needs
• Support the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions
• When necessary, represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events
• Work with other departments including Sales, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience
• Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope