Remote Principal Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Principal Backend Engineer at Grafana Cloud, a composable observability platform. The role involves influencing the roadmap, delivering new features, driving innovations, mentoring team members, and working with distributed systems. The company is remote-first and global.

Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, C, C++, Rust or similar)
• Experienced with delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product
• Solid 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Kubernetes or building and operating a storage service
• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles or exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems

Benefits

Equity, bonus (if applicable), and other benefits