Grafana Labs · 1 day ago
Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Databases, Loki Ingest | USA | Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$175K/yr - $210K/yrGrafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse known for its popular visualization tool, Grafana. The Staff Backend Engineer will be responsible for influencing the product roadmap, delivering new features, and maintaining critical systems within the Grafana Cloud observability platform.
AnalyticsCloud Data ServicesData VisualizationOpen SourceSoftware
Responsibilities
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
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
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
Qualification
Required
Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
Some 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
Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
Some experience running complex distributed systems at scale
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
Preferred
Experience working with Kubernetes
Experience running kafka at scale
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)
Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code
Benefits
Equity
Bonus (if applicable)
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
100% Remote, Global Culture
Scaling Organization
Transparent Communication
Innovation-Driven
Open Source Roots
Empowered Teams
Career Growth Pathways
Approachable Leadership
Passionate People
In-Person onboarding
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum
3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
Company
Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs is an open-source software platform built to support monitoring, visualization, and metric analytics.
Founded in 2014
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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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
Recent News
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