Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grafana Labs develops Grafana Cloud, an observability platform integrating metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. The Staff Backend Engineer will work on the Mimir Query squad to design, build, operate, and maintain scalable distributed database systems, while improving reliability and performance, contributing to open-source projects, and participating in on-call rotations.
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
Skills
- This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in the USA time zones
- 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
- You have good time management skills, which you leverage to work on the right things at the right time
- 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 squad. You'll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication and time management skills are a must
- 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
- Experience with leading and delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer's hands in a self-driven and collaborative way
- Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
- Experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model
- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
- Familiarity with observability systems, know when to use metrics, logs, traces, to debug a problem
- Comfortable with microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Experience and comfort developing with LLMs like Claude and Codex on your day to day
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol
- 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)
- Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus (if applicable)
- Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants
- 100% remote work
- Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career
- In-person onboarding
- 30 days of annual leave per annum
- 3 days of annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
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