Grafana Labs is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a remote Mimir Engineer position at Grafana Labs. The role involves maintaining and improving the Mimir OSS project and Grafana Cloud Metrics across 3 major cloud providers. Responsibilities include driving projects, designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical systems.

Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language
• Experience delivering projects
• Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software

Responsibilities

• Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
• Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience working with Kafka
• 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