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.
Earning trust of large-scale operator customers; Meet clear business objectives; Improve security; Improve robustness; Improve flexibility; Improve multitenancy; Improve interoperability; Deliver minimum loveable products; Gather data and feedback; Progress iteratively
Industry & Context.
Solve demanding distributed systems challenges; Break down problems; Leverage team and organization
Weekday 12h x 5d on-call rotations, Weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations, In-Person onboarding
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
Participate in on-call rotations
Develop thought leadership
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work across Grafana Labs organization; Collaborate with external customers; Work with Product and UX; Partner with frontend engineers; Work with fellow new Grafanistas
Communication Scope
Excellent written communication; Excellent interpersonal communication
Process & Methodology
Drive projects from ideation to production
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