Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a remote Mimir Engineer position at Grafana Labs, responsible for maintaining and improving the Mimir OSS project and Grafana Cloud Metrics. The role requires solid experience with programming languages, collaboration and communication skills, and experience delivering projects in a self-driven manner.

Requirements

• Motivated self-starter with a bias towards action
• Customer focused
• Pragmatism: ability to break down complex challenges and achieve short feedback loops
• Collaboration and communication skills
• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, C, C++, Rust or similar)
• Experience delivering projects in a self-driven manner
• Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software

Responsibilities

• Influence the roadmap and career objectives
• Deliver new features and iterate to improve
• Drive projects from ideation to operations
• Embrace open-source culture and contribute to other projects
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems
• Be a part of the follow-the-sun on-call rotations
• Mentor and support other team members
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of the cloud product and codebase

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience working with Kafka
• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles or with experience 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)