Grafana Labs · 2 days ago
Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana k6 | USA | Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$168K/yr - $202K/yr
8+ years expGrafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with over 20M users of its visualization tool. The Staff Backend Engineer will design and implement scalable services for Grafana Cloud products, drive technical implementations, and contribute to the long-term strategy of observability solutions.
AnalyticsCloud Data ServicesData VisualizationOpen SourceSoftware
Responsibilities
Design and implement high-quality, scalable services to be consumed by multiple Grafana Cloud products
Work with product teams, in addition to design and docs, to develop features that align with wider product strategy and customer needs
Support the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions
When necessary, represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events
Work with other departments including Sales, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience
Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
Qualification
Required
Strong 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but do not require candidates with Go experience. Long term experience in any major language (Python, .NET, Java, Rust, etc) with a willingness to learn Go is acceptable
Demonstrated experience working with and monitoring Kubernetes in a production environment
Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems
Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software
Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry)
Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner
Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, setting technical direction and leading project teams
Experience with distributed systems
Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
Strong mentoring and leadership skills
Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management
Preferred
Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications
Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects, with evidence of successful pull requests and community collaboration
In-depth knowledge cloud platform internals
Strong understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts
Benefits
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
100% Remote, Global Culture
30 days of annual leave per annum
3 days of annual leave entitlement reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
Company
Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs is an open-source software platform built to support monitoring, visualization, and metric analytics.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$805.23MKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture PartnersGIC
2024-08-21Series D· $270M
2024-08-21Secondary Market
2022-04-06Series D· $240M
Leadership Team
Raj Dutt
co-founder/ceo
Anthony Woods
Co-Founder
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