Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is a remote position within Grafana Labs in Germany for a backend team member to build and operate low-latency microservices in Java. The role involves providing automated Root Cause Insights by actively querying Grafana Cloud databases and integrating with the Grafana platform components.

Requirements

• You have solid Java programming experience. Asserts services are built on Java
• You have worked on a big SaaS platform and dealt with common distributed systems problems (e.g., scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA, …)
• You have used K8s or a public Cloud for operating your software and were responsible for operating the software you have built
• You are passionate about writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• You have prior experience in owning customers' experience by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations
• Collaboration and communication: As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is mainly remote, good communication skills, ability to work independently and collaborate with distributed teams is a must

Responsibilities

• Drive projects from initial ideation to operations once it is in the hands of customers
• 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
• Maintain critical systems, and own their 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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)
• Familiarity with GoLang

Benefits

• Base compensation range for this role is EUR 71,688 - EUR 86,026 in Germany
• Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here