Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a remote Software Engineer in Sweden and contribute to the evolution of our highly successful open-source project and Grafana Cloud. We are seeking a seasoned professional with extensive experience in SaaS platforms at scale to help refactor Grafana for improved simplicity and standardization. You will play a key role in enhancing the operational experience of our systems, contributing to design documents, shaping the roadmap, and mentoring team members. This position requires strong coding skills, experience with distributed systems, and excellent communication abilities. The role includes on-call responsibilities and offers a competitive compensation package.

Requirements

• Possess strong coding skills and operational experience; be responsible for operating the software you have built
• Have worked on a SaaS platform and dealt with common distributed systems problems (e.g., scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA, …)
• Have excellent communication skills
• Be willing to work across teams
• Be pragmatic; prioritize progress over perfection; handle ambiguity
• Be familiar with Golang or be excited to learn the language

Responsibilities

• Code new features
• Enhance the operational experience of the systems you develop
• Iteratively improve systems based on production insights
• Author design documents
• Contribute to design documents
• Review design documents
• Take an active role in shaping the roadmap
• Mentor other team members
• Support other team members
• Collaborate with different teams across the organization
• Own the experience of our customers by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and a separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Golang

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)