Go
Kubernetes

Senior Backend Engineer, Grafana Search & Storage

Overview

The Grafana Search & Storage squad is building Grafana’s next generation storage layer, an important part of our App Platform movement.

Job Description

Grafana Labs is a company that helps more than 3,000 companies manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack.

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 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
  • - 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 the Go programming language
  • - Experience developing using Kubernetes API Patterns such as controllers and operators
  • - Experience 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
  • - Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
  • - Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Benefits

  • - Equity
  • - Bonus (if applicable)
  • - Other benefits listed on the 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.