Senior Software Engineer

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Grafana Labs

📍Remote - Sweden

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a Senior Backend Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of Mimir, a key component of Grafana Cloud's observability platform. This full-time remote role, available to candidates in the UK, Sweden, Spain, and Germany, involves working within a collaborative team to design, build, and operate critical systems. You will be responsible for delivering new features, improving existing systems, and participating in on-call rotations. The ideal candidate possesses strong programming skills (Go preferred), experience with cloud-based systems, and a passion for building high-performance, reliable software. Grafana Labs offers a remote-first work environment and a competitive compensation package.

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 pragmatic and 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
  • Possess strong collaboration and communication skills
  • Have solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, Python, C, C++, Rust or similar)
  • 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 with being on-call and following the DevOps model
  • Have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
  • Have familiarity with observability systems, know when to use metrics, logs, traces, to debug a problem

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 idea 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
  • 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 queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol
  • 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 exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
  • Have familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Bonus (if applicable)

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