Staff Backend Software Engineer (Loki, Nasa)

Join Grafana Labs, a leading open-source observability platform. As a Staff Backend Software Engineer, you will design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, contribute to open-source projects, and mentor other team members. Enjoy a fully remote work environment, generous vacation and healthcare benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, ensuring their reliability, performance, and availability.
• Drive projects from initial ideation through to operations, collaborating with your team to deliver new features and improve existing ones.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and contribute to open-source projects.

Requirements

• You have experience writing clean, robust, performant software that others can maintain easily
• You are a motivated self-starter with a bias towards action
• You have some experience delivering projects from gathering requirements and brainstorming ideas through to shipping a product to customers, working in a self-driven way
• You can take on complex challenges and break them down into short feedback loops: analyse, design, and build modular solutions; deliver MVPs; gather data and feedback; and progress iteratively
• You have solid experience with at least one programming language. Familiarity with Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, or a similar language translates well
• You have some experience developing software that runs in the cloud or experience with systems engineering
• You communicate and collaborate effectively with teammates in a fully remote setup
• You are customer-focused and passionate about creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• You are familiar with on-call work, operations or SRE tasks, or the concept of infrastructure as code
• You have used Grafana or Prometheus in an operational role, including on-call work, or in a hobby or homelab project
• You have experience writing low-level code for databases, storage layers, or query engines
• You have exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
• You have experience working with Kubernetes