Staff Software Engineer - OpenTelemetry Python instrumentation | Spain | Remote
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Job description
Backend-focused software engineer on the Grafana Alerting squad, working across Grafana Alerting and the SLOs product to build and operate distributed alerting systems on-prem and in Grafana Cloud.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Spain
- Pay
- EUR 97,000 – 121,000 / 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 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
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
- 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
- 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
- Solid experience with at least one programming language
- Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, 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
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar translates well to our use of Go
Your team
Grafana Alerting squad
Backend-focused team operating at the core of the Grafana open-source project, working closely with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams; scope spans Grafana Alerting and the SLOs product.
Benefits
- 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, 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
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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. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries.
Key facts
- Observability / software
- 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries
- Grafana Cloud trusted by more than 10,000 organizations
- Built on open source and open standards
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum
- All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Partners & customers
What they value
- Transparency
- Autonomy
- Trust
- Collaboration
- Open source
- High trust, low ego