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About the role
- Staff Backend Software Engineer building and operating Grafana Cloud’s Loki observability systems. Designing scalable Go-based distributed services for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.
Responsibilities
- Influence the roadmap and personal career objectives
- Collaborate with the team to deliver new features and iterate based on results
- Drive projects from initial idea through customer operations
- Contribute to open-source projects beyond the team’s direct scope
- Design, build, operate and maintain critical systems
- Own system reliability, performance and availability
- Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations and own operated services
- Support team members and participate in design discussions
- Learn the cloud product and large distributed-system codebase
- Write and review pull requests and design documents
- Shepherd automated release rollouts
- Optimize efficiency and resilience of metrics processing, storage and querying
Requirements
- Candidates must be based in the US or Canada
- Solid experience with at least one programming language; familiarity with Go, Python, C, C++, Rust or similar
- Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering through product shipment
- Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
- Experience with on-call and following the DevOps model
- Experience writing clean, robust, performant, maintainable software
- Familiarity with observability systems, including metrics, logs and traces
- Experience with Kubernetes is highly desirable
- Experience with queue systems, such as the Kafka protocol
- Experience using Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles
- Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or willingness to learn
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus (if applicable)
- Other benefits listed on Grafana Labs’ careers page
- 100% remote work
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum
- 3 Grafana Shutdown Days reserved within annual leave entitlement
- In-person onboarding
- Career growth pathways
- Autonomy and support to ship great work
- Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates
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