Grafana Labs
Open-source
SeniorBackendEngineerGrafanaSearch&Storage
“Senior Backend Engineer - Grafana Search & Storage at Grafana Labs. Skills: Go programming language, Large distributed systems, Cloud development, Systems engineering. 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”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver new features; Iterate and improve; Own the reliability, performance, and availability of critical systems
Industry & Context.
Take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops
On-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Solid experience with the Go programming language, Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with large distributed systems, 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
Nice to Have
Have been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects), Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code
What You'll Do.
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
and maintain critical systems
owning the reliability
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
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with your team to deliver new features; Collaborate with the team; Work with your teammates in a fully remote setup; Participate in design discussions
Communication Scope
Good communication skills are a must; Independent attitude and good communication skills are a must
Process & Methodology
Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations
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