Senior Software Engineer - Loki Query

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Grafana Labs

📍Remote - Sweden

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Backend Software Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of their open-source telemetry databases, including Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope. You will be responsible for designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical systems, ensuring their reliability, performance, and availability. As a remote-first company, you will collaborate with your team in a fully remote setup, requiring strong communication skills. You will also have the opportunity to influence the company's roadmap, contribute to open-source projects, and learn new skills in a fast-paced environment.

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 team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a mus
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • Equity
  • Bonus (if applicable)
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