Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a remote Adaptive Telemetry Engineer, working from the Eastern timezone of Canada. You will be part of a team responsible for ensuring the quality of telemetry data within Grafana Cloud's databases. This role involves working on large-scale projects, improving system performance and reliability, contributing to code reviews and design documents, and participating in on-call rotations. You will collaborate with a team in a remote-first environment, driving projects from ideation to operation. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with strong communication skills, experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred), and experience with cloud-based software development and distributed systems. Competitive compensation and benefits are offered.

Requirements

• Be a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• Be customer focused
• Have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• Be able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• Have good communication skills
• Have solid experience with at least one programming language
• Have 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
• Have some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
• Have some experience working with microservices architectures and distributed systems
• Have 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
• 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
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience working with Kubernetes
• Have experience working with Kafka
• Have 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)
• Have familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)
• Remote work