Grafana Labs
Principal Backend Engineer, Grafana
Grafana Labs
£109k - £136k
UK (Remote)
Go
Kubernetes
MySQL

Principal Backend Engineer, Grafana

Overview

Grafana Labs is hiring a Principal Backend Engineer to work on Grafana Cloud, a composable observability platform.

Job Description

Grafana Labs is a company that provides open source observability software, including Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo. They are looking for a principal level engineer with a distributed systems background to drive changes in Grafana's core architecture.

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

About the company

Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It can produce charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.