Grafana IRM squad operates business critical services that help Grafana and multiple organizations across the globe respond to incidents. The mission is to make it easy to detect, respond, and learn from incidents with minimal toil.
Requirements
- Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go and Python, but if you have familiarity with C++, JVM languages, Rust or similar.
- Experience working with Kubernetes.
- 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.
- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.
- Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects).
- Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability.
- Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running.
- Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team.
- 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.
- 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.
Other
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
- You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action.
- You are customer focused.
- You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs.
- Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively.
