[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer - Grafana Search & Storage @Grafana Labs

Role Description

The Grafana Search & Storage squad is developing Grafana’s next-generation storage layer. As a key component of our App Platform, Unified Storage enables developers to build innovative applications using a Kubernetes-inspired Operator pattern to interact with data directly.

In addition to operating Unified Storage at scale within Grafana Cloud, our team manages two essential features for discovery and organization:

• Search, the unified engine for finding and querying all Grafana data
• Folders, for hierarchical content management

What You’ll Be Doing:

• 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

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

Qualifications

• 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: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops
• Collaboration and communication: Good communication skills are a must
• Solid experience with the Go programming language
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with large distributed systems
• Experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Bonus Points For

• Have been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

Compensation & Rewards

• In Germany, the Base compensation range for this role is €97,000 - €121,000
• Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process
• Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs

• 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
• Balance is Key

Equal Opportunity Employer

We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.