Staff Backend Engineer – Grafana k6

October 31

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Grafana Labs

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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.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📋 Description

• We define senior roles via the scope of their business impact more than via their expertise or their specific activities. The most important thing we are looking for in an engineer is the ability to take ownership. You will need to drive technical implementations working across engineering teams and departments, contribute to business conversations, and help shape the long-term strategy. You’ll bring your passion for observability and software engineering expertise to help us take synthetic monitoring capabilities within Grafana Cloud to the next level. This will include working across products including Synthetics, Frontend Observability, Grafana k6, and Grafana Cloud k6. • Design and implement high-quality, scalable services to be consumed by multiple Grafana Cloud products. • Work with product teams, in addition to design and docs, to develop features that align with wider product strategy and customer needs • Support the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions • When necessary, represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events • Work with other departments including Sales, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience • Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running • Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope

🎯 Requirements

• Strong 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but do not require candidates with Go experience. Long term experience in any major language (Python, .NET, Java, Rust, etc) with a willingness to learn Go is acceptable. • Demonstrated experience working with and monitoring Kubernetes in a production environment • Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems • Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software • Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry) • Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner • Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, setting technical direction and leading project teams • Experience with distributed systems • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills • Strong mentoring and leadership skills • Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose. • Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment. • Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates. • Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things. • Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work. • Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics. • Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career. • Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human. • Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do. • In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it. • Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.