Grafana Labs is looking to hire a Staff Backend Engineer to work on their Loki Ingest component, which is part of their composable observability platform. This role will involve designing, building, and operating critical systems that handle metrics, logs, and traces for their customers, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
Requirements
- 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, 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
- Some experience running complex distributed systems at scale
- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Experience running kafka at scale
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
- 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
- Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
- 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
Other
- This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants from USA time zones only at this time.
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
- 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
