Grafana Labs · 8 hours ago
Backend Engineer - Mimir | USA | Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Entry, Mid Level
$128K/yr - $153K/yrGrafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company with over 20 million users of its visualization tool. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to join their Mimir squad, focusing on optimizing and maintaining critical systems for metrics, ensuring performance and reliability in a collaborative environment.
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 idea 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 follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
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 with being on-call and following the DevOps model
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
Familiarity with observability systems, know when to use metrics, logs, traces, to debug a problem
You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
You are customer focused
You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs
You have good time management skills, which you leverage to work on the right things at the right time
Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a squad. You'll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication and time management skills are a must
Preferred
Experience working with Kubernetes
Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol
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 the concept of infrastructure as code
Benefits
Equity
Bonus (if applicable)
30 days per annum annual leave policy
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 PartnersGICCoatue,Sequoia Capital
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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