Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
Work with your team to deliver new features solving customer problems and enhancing operations on a large database at scale.
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.

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, 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.
Some 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.
Experience working with Kubernetes (Bonus).
Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol (Bonus).
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) (Bonus).
Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn (Bonus).
Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code (Bonus).

100% Remote, Global Culture
As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
In-Person onboarding
We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
Balance is Key
We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect.

Senior Backend Engineer

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