Grafana Labs is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a remote Backend Engineer with at least 2 years of experience to join their team and work on the Kubernetes monitoring product. The company values collaboration, communication, and user-centered design. The role involves working with Product, UX, and Frontend engineers, contributing to open-source projects, and mentoring other team members.

Requirements

• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company
• For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We operate by consensus
• You have at least a couple of years of experience as a Backend developer
• You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a user-centered approach
• You know how to transform ideas into working code
• You enjoy working on complex solutions
• You are able to troubleshoot modern web application issues and work with profilers, debuggers, bundlers, and testing libraries
• Experience working with Kubernetes is a must and familiarity with Linux and Prometheus is also an advantage

Responsibilities

• As a Backend Engineer, you will be working on the Kubernetes monitoring product
• You could also be contributing to one of our open-source projects
• You will be collaborating with Product, UX, and Frontend engineers to turn their designs into great user experiences

Benefits

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Work with your team to drive projects from initial ideation all the way to production, into 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 support rotation and take ownership of the services you’re running
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
• Interact with our customers to champion our product, whilst listening to their feedback to iterate and improve