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

Summary

The job is for a Senior Backend Software Engineer focusing on databases at Grafana Labs, a remote-first company offering observability platform - Grafana Cloud. The role involves influencing roadmap, delivering new features, driving projects, mentoring team members, and learning new skills.

Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, but Python, C, C++, Rust or similar also acceptable)
• Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product
• Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Responsibilities

• 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
• Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the 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 of a large distributed system

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles or exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

Benefits

• Equity, bonus (if applicable)
• Other benefits as listed on Grafana Labs careers page