Grafana Labs
Observability
StaffBackendEngineerGrafanaEnterprise
“Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise at Grafana Labs. Skills: Backend services, Distributed systems, Observability, Go. Design backend services. Lead backend development”
What You'll Achieve.
Meet clear business objectives; Deliver minimum loveable products; Gather data and feedback; Progress iteratively
Industry & Context.
Solve their most demanding distributed systems challenges; Take on complex distributed systems challenges; Break them down into digestible problems
Weekday 12h x 5d on-call rotations, Weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Deep professional experience writing production services, Distributed systems fundamentals, Demonstrated experience designing and operating systems for large-scale, high-traffic, high-availability, or multi-tenant environments, Professional experience building and consuming gRPC/protobuf APIs, Database skills, Experience with large-scale CI/CD systems, Comfort working with Kubernetes, Experience with observability tooling
Nice to Have
Experience with TypeScript and React, Experience with Grafana's LGTM+ observability stack, Prior experience at or building for large-scale cloud service providers, Experience designing or operating large-scale build infrastructure
What You'll Do.
Design backend services
Lead backend development
Drive continuous improvement
Contribute to scalability
Own operational health
Develop thought leadership
Design and build backend systems
Architect distributed backend services
Collaborate with Product and UX
Partner with frontend engineers
Drive scalability improvements
Engage with customers
Advocate for customers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work across the larger Grafana Labs organisation; Collaborate with Product and UX; Partner with frontend engineers; Work well as a communicative member of a team; Leverage your team and organization to deliver
Communication Scope
Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
Process & Methodology
Drive projects from initial ideation through the development lifecycle to production
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