Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs' Adaptive Telemetry team as a remote Adaptive Telemetry Engineer, working from the Eastern timezone of the USA. You will be involved in designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical telemetry systems, contributing to new features and iterative improvements. The role requires collaboration with a team in a remote-first environment, demanding strong communication skills. Responsibilities include project ownership, on-call rotations, mentoring, and contributing to the broader engineering organization. The ideal candidate possesses experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred), cloud software development, microservices, and distributed systems. Grafana offers a competitive salary, equity, bonuses, and other benefits.

Requirements

• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action. You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• Pragmatism: You are 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
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a squad. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
• 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
• Some experience working with microservices architectures and distributed systems
• 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

• 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)
• 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