Staff Backend Engineer - Mimir Query, Databases
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Job description
Staff Backend Engineer on the Mimir Query squad, building and operating the Mimir metrics database that powers Grafana Cloud Metrics. The role focuses on optimizing the efficiency and resilience of processing, storing, and querying metrics at large volumes.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Canada
- Pay
- CAD 186,368 – 223,642 / year
What you'll do
- 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 idea 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
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
- Be a part of your team's follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you're running
- 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
- Write and review PRs and design documents from other engineers in the squad, shepherd automated release rollouts, and participate in the on-call rotation
What we're looking for
- Motivated self starter with a bias towards action
- Customer focused with a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs
- Good time management skills
- Pragmatism: able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops
- Collaboration and communication skills in a fully remote setup
- Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go, or familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar)
- Experience with leading and delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer's hands in a self-driven and collaborative way
- Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
- Experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model
- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
- Familiarity with observability systems, know when to use metrics, logs, traces, to debug a problem
- Comfortable with microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Experience and comfort developing with LLMs like Claude and Codex on your day to day
Nice to have
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol
- Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles
- Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code
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
- Grafana Cloud trusted by more than 10,000 organizations
- Backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital
- Open-source legacy
Partners & customers
What they value
- Transparency
- Autonomy
- Trust
- Collaboration
- Open source
- High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics