Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a remote Software Engineer in Germany 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's architecture for improved simplicity and standardization. You will play a key role in enhancing the operational experience of our systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring safe deployments. This position offers a competitive salary, equity, and bonus opportunities. The role involves on-call responsibilities.

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, contribute to, and review design documents
• Take an active role in shaping the roadmap
• Mentor and 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)