Principal Backend Engineer, Grafana

Overview

Job Description

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 innovations 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
• - Drive towards decisions and embrace our culture of ''don''t let perfect get in the way of great''
• - 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

Required Skills

• - Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, C, C++, Rust or similar)
• - Experienced 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
• - Solid 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
• - Experience working with Kubernetes, or building and operating a storage service
• - Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles
• - 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)
• - Other benefits listed on the company''s careers page