Grafana Labs is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer, Remote - Germany

Summary

The job is for a Senior Backend Software Engineer focused on databases in Grafana Cloud, a remote-first observability platform. Responsibilities include influencing the roadmap, delivering new features, driving projects, mentoring team members, and working with open-source culture. The company values diversity and offers benefits such as equity, bonus (if applicable), and other perks.

Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Kubernetes
• 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
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

Benefits

Equity, bonus (if applicable)