Grafana Labs is looking to hire a Staff Backend Engineer to enhance their Grafana k6 product, specifically focusing on their multi-tenant distributed monitoring system that runs synthetic tests globally. The goal is to take synthetic monitoring capabilities within Grafana Cloud to the next level by designing and implementing scalable services, contributing to product strategy, and driving technical implementations across teams.
Requirements
- 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 with distributed systems
Responsibilities
- 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
Other
- This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants from USA in EST time zone.
- 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.
- 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.
