Senior Software Engineer – k6 Core

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🌐 United Kingdom, Canada, +5 more countries – Remote

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💵 £91.8k - £110.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Grafana Labs

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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 • Develop features and improvements across the k6 codebase from initial idea through implementation and delivery • Work on problems requiring context evaluation, trade-off analysis, and pragmatic technical decisions • Collaborate with engineers on design, implementation, and code reviews • Deliver production-quality code and maintain existing functionality • Help ensure the system remains reliable and maintainable • Contribute to k6 cloud services supporting distributed test execution across worldwide data centers • Address performance, correctness, and failure-mode concerns in distributed services • Participate in architecture, releases, user-facing behavior, and open-source project health • Contribute to an asynchronous development process using pull requests and design notes

🎯 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 • Familiarity with contributing to or maintaining open-source projects is a bonus • Prior experience using k6 in production, or contributing to the k6 project or ecosystem, is a bonus • Experience with performance, reliability, or network testing and optimization is a bonus • Experience with distributed systems or cloud-based services is a bonus • JavaScript and/or TypeScript familiarity is a bonus • Experience with backend systems for web or mobile applications is a bonus • Familiarity with Docker, AWS, microservices architectures, and Grafana or APM observability tools is a bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus (if applicable) • 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 • Approachable, transparent leadership