Senior Backend Software Engineer – Loki
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Senior Backend Engineer building and operating distributed Go-based observability systems for Grafana Cloud. Supporting Loki/Mimir-scale reliability, performance, open-source development, and on-call operations.
Responsibilities:
- Influence the roadmap and personal career objectives
- Work with the team to deliver new features and iterate based on results
- Drive projects from initial idea through production operations and customer delivery
- Contribute to open-source projects beyond the team’s direct scope
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning reliability, performance, and availability
- Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations and own operated services
- Support team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team
- Learn the cloud product, customer needs, and codebase of a large distributed system
- Write and review pull requests and design documents
- Shepherd automated release rollouts
Requirements:
- Solid experience with at least one programming language; Go used at Grafana Labs, with Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar translating well
- Some experience delivering projects from requirements gathering and brainstorming through product shipment in a self-driven way
- Some experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
- Some experience being on-call and following the DevOps model
- Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software
- Familiarity with observability systems and using metrics, logs, and traces to debug problems
- Motivated self-starter with a bias toward action and customer focus
- Pragmatism and ability to break down complex challenges into modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather feedback, and iterate
- Good communication and collaboration skills in a fully remote setup
- Kubernetes experience 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 desire to learn
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code
Benefits:
- Equity
- Bonus (if applicable)
- Other benefits listed on Grafana Labs' careers page
- 100% remote work
- In-person onboarding
- 30 days of annual leave per annum
- 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
- Career growth pathways
- Autonomy and support to ship great work
- Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates
- Global collaborative culture
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