The company is looking to build Grafana’s next generation storage layer and is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to drive projects from initial ideation to operations.
Requirements
- Solid experience with the Go programming language
- Experience developing using Kubernetes API Patterns such as controllers and operators
- 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
- Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
- Have 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
- Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
- 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
- Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
Other
- Motivated self starter with a bias towards action
- Customer focused
- Passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
- Pragmatism: able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops
- Collaboration and communication: good communication skills are a must
- Independent attitude
- Good communication skills
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or related field (not explicitly mentioned but implied)
- Travel requirements not mentioned, but remote work is allowed
