Staff Backend Software Engineer – Loki

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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