About the role

  • Senior Backend Engineer developing scalable observability solutions for Grafana Cloud. Collaborating with teams to build and maintain critical systems in a remote-first environment.

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

Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • equity
  • bonus (if applicable)
  • 30 days annual leave
  • remote work options
  • in-person onboarding
  • professional development opportunities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$146,000 - CA$175,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudPythonRustGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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