Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform built on open source and open standards. The Staff Backend Engineer will help evolve Grafana into a scalable, multi-tenant observability app platform by developing backend features, shaping architecture and roadmaps, collaborating across teams, and supporting production operations.
Responsibilities
- Coding new features, enhancing the operational experience of the systems you develop, and iteratively improving them based on production insights
- Authoring, contributing to and reviewing design documents
- Taking an active role in shaping the roadmap
- Mentoring and supporting other team members and collaborating with different teams across the organization
- Owning the experience of our customers by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and a separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations
Skills
- You have strong coding skills and operational experience; you were responsible for operating the software you have built
- You have worked on a SaaS platform and dealt with common distributed systems problems (e.g. scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA, …)
- You have excellent communication skills. You can express your ideas with great clarity in writing and during meetings. You know when to pick which mode of communication
- You are willing to work across teams. Your work has to be aligned with the needs of other squads and external stakeholders. You make your plans transparent, bring stakeholders on board, and are open to feedback and suggestions
- You are pragmatic; you prioritize progress over perfection; you can handle ambiguity
- We are using Golang on the backend; you are either already familiar with Golang or are excited to learn the language
Benefits
- Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants
- All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success.
- 100% Remote, Global Culture
- Career Growth Pathways - Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- In-Person onboarding
- We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
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