Senior Backend Engineer (Databases, Loki Query)

Join Grafana Labs, a remote-first company that embraces diversity and innovation. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll work on our composable observability platform, Grafana Cloud, and contribute to open-source projects. Enjoy a range of benefits, including 30 days of paid vacation, healthcare coverage, retirement planning, and professional development opportunities.

• Contribuer activement à l'influence de la feuille de route de l'équipe et à la réalisation des objectifs de carrière.
• Participer à la conception, à la construction, à l'exploitation et à la maintenance de systèmes critiques, en étant responsable de la fiabilité, des performances et de la disponibilité.
• Collaborer avec l'équipe pour livrer de nouvelles fonctionnalités, puis utiliser les résultats pour itérer et améliorer.
• 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
• 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
• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• Pragmatism: You are 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
• 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
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
• You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• Experience working with Kubernetes and/or Docker
• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, and a desire to learn
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code