Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs' Asserts.ai team as a Senior or Staff Level Backend Engineer and contribute to the development and operation of low-latency microservices. This full-time remote position, open to German candidates only, involves driving technical strategy, influencing product roadmaps, designing and building critical systems, and mentoring team members. You will work with Java, microservices, Kubernetes, and contribute to a highly available, multi-tenant system serving thousands of customers. The role requires strong distributed systems experience and a passion for creating intuitive products. Grafana Labs offers a competitive salary, generous vacation time, and other benefits.

Requirements

• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• You have experience delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• You have experience in building and deploying SaaS software on any one of the cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure
• You have strong experience in Java programming and have built and deployed Java based microservices
• You have experience with Kubernetes
• You have been responsible for operating production services and organizing/participating in on-call rotations
• You actively mentor other team members, identifying areas for focus and improvement

Responsibilities

• Drive technical and business strategy in the Observability department
• Influence the product roadmap. Drive innovations from ideation to customer adoption
• Drive system design. Create design documents, collaborate within and across teams
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Build and operate critical systems. Own their reliability, performance, and availability
• Participate in on-call rotations
• Mentor and support other team members
• Strive to become a subject matter expert for observability products and systems
• Gain a deeper understanding of our cloud product, our customers and get to know the codebase of a large distributed system

Preferred Qualifications

Been a power 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)

Benefits

• Generous vacation policy of 30 days per annum with national holidays in your country of residence on top
• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)
• Remote work