Senior Software Engineer – k6 Core

Job not on LinkedIn

🔥 30 minutes ago

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Grafana Labs

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in open-source observability technologies and solutions. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for logging, metrics, tracing, and profile management with products like Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir. Their offerings are designed to help businesses visualize, monitor, and alert on data from various sources, providing capabilities such as anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and service level objective management using AI/ML insights. Grafana Labs provides both cloud-based and self-managed solutions, ideal for infrastructure, application, and frontend observability. Additionally, their platform supports integration with various data sources like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, making them a key player in the observability and infrastructure monitoring space.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain k6, an open-source performance testing tool written in Go • Work on features and improvements across the k6 codebase from idea through implementation and delivery • Solve underspecified problems by understanding context, evaluating trade-offs, and choosing pragmatic technical approaches • Collaborate with engineers on design, implementation, and code reviews • Deliver production-quality code and maintain existing functionality • Help keep the system reliable and maintainable over time • Contribute to k6 cloud services supporting distributed test execution across data centers • Work on Go services requiring attention to performance, correctness, and failure modes • Contribute to architecture, releases, user-facing behavior, and the health of the open-source project

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience building production software in Go, or another language with good support for concurrency and parallelism • Experience working on larger or long-lived codebases • Ability to work independently on scoped problems and deliver them to completion • Clear technical communication skills, especially in code reviews and design discussions • Good understanding of internet protocols such as HTTP, gRPC, and WebSockets • Some familiarity with lower-level networking concepts • Experience with modern development practices, including testing, code review, and iterative development • Experience building non-trivial systems • Canadian Eastern time zone location required

🏖️ Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) • 100% remote work • Career growth pathways • In-person onboarding • 30 days of annual leave per annum • 3 annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days • Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates • Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things • Empowered, high-trust, low-ego culture • Approachable, transparent leadership