Remote 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, driving projects from ideation to operations, designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical systems, collaborating with the team, and learning new skills.

Requirements

• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind
• Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a squad. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup
• 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

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 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

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)