Grafana Labs is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is a remote position for a backend-focused engineer in the Grafana Alerting squad. The role involves influencing the roadmap, delivering new features, driving projects from ideation to operations, and contributing to other projects outside the team's scope. The candidate should have solid experience with programming languages, delivering projects, developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering, and writing clean, robust, and performant software.

Requirements

• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, Java, 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

• Influence 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

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

• Base compensation range for this role in Canada is CAD 146,000 - CAD 183,011. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process
• Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here