Senior Backend Software Engineer - Loki | NASA | Remote
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Job description
Software engineer on Grafana Labs' Databases team, which owns the telemetry databases Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs), Tempo (traces) and Pyroscope (profiles). The role involves designing, building and operating these multi-tenant distributed systems in Go on Kubernetes across major cloud providers.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · United States, Canada
- Pay
- CAD 164,500 – 197,000 / year
What you'll do
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
- Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
- Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team's scope
- Be a part of your team's on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you're running
- Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team
- Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system
What we're looking for
- Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
- Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements and brainstorming ideas, all the way to shipping a product to the customer's hands in a self-driven way
- Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
- You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
- You are customer focused. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs
- Pragmatism: able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively
- Collaboration and communication: good communication skills are a must in a fully remote setup
Nice to have
- Experience writing low level code for databases, storage layers, or query engines
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Been a user of Grafana and/or Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools in hobby/homelab projects)
- Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
- Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code
Your team
Databases team
Owns the telemetry databases Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles; OSS projects also offered as a Cloud service supporting Grafana Cloud and as an on-premise solution, implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across GCP, Azure, and AWS.
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus (if applicable)
- 100% Remote, Global Culture
- Scaling Organization
- Transparent Communication
- Innovation-Driven
- Open Source Roots
- Empowered Teams
- Career Growth Pathways
- Approachable Leadership
- Passionate People
- In-Person onboarding
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
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About Grafana Labs
The company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions.
Key facts
- Observability software
- 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries
- Backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital
- Grafana Cloud trusted by more than 10,000 organizations
- Customers include Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum
Partners & customers
What they value
- Transparency
- Autonomy
- Trust
- Open source
- Collaboration
- High trust, low ego
- Outcomes over optics