Staff Backend Software Engineer - Databases - Loki Ingest

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 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 at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
• - Some 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
• - Some 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 and/or Docker
• - Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles
• - Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, and a desire to learn
• - Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

Benefits

• - 100% Remote, Global Culture
• - Scaling Organization
• - Transparent Communication
• - Innovation-Driven
• - Open Source Roots
• - Empowered Teams
• - Career Growth Pathways
• - Approachable Leadership
• - Passionate People
• - In-Person onboarding
• - Balance is Key - 30 days annual leave per annum