
Java
Kubernetes
Staff Software Engineer - O11y, Asserts
Overview
Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Observability group, focusing on building and leading the Asserts backend initiatives.
Job Description
Grafana Labs is a company that provides open source visualization tools and helps companies manage their observability strategies. The Asserts.ai team, part of Grafana Labs, is responsible for building and operating low-latency microservices that provide automated Root Cause Insights.
Responsibilities
- - Drive technical and business strategy in the Observability department
- - Influence the product roadmap
- - Drive innovations from ideation to customer adoption
- - Drive system design
- - Create design documents, collaborate within and across teams
- - Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
- - Build and operate critical systems
- - Own their reliability, performance, and availability
- - Participate in on-call rotations
- - Mentor and support other team members
- - Strive to become a subject matter expert for observability products and systems
- - Gain a deeper understanding of our cloud product, our customers and get to know the codebase of a large distributed system
Required Skills
- - Motivated self starter with a bias towards action
- - Customer focused with a passion for creating intuitive products
- - Experience delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product
- - Experience in building and deploying SaaS software on cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure
- - Strong experience in Java programming and building Java based microservices
- - Experience with Kubernetes
- - Responsible for operating production services and organizing/participating in on-call rotations
- - Actively mentor other team members
- - Share knowledge by creating blog posts, giving tech talks at meetups and conferences
- - Curious and enjoy learning new programming languages and frameworks
Benefits
- - Generous vacation policy of 30 days per annum with national holidays in your country of residence on top
- - Equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits
- - Global benefits with some regional variations discussed during the interview process
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.