Principal Backend Engineer at Grafana Labs Full Time

Responsibilities:

1. Influence roadmap and career objectives, collaborating with the team to deliver new features and iterate for improvement.
2. Drive innovations from ideation to operations, embracing open-source culture and contributing to projects.
3. Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
4. Participate in on-call rotations, taking ownership of services and mentoring other team members.
5. Learn new skills by gaining deeper understanding of cloud product, customers, and large distributed system codebase.

Requirements:

1. Solid experience with at least one programming language, preferably Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar.
2. Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering to product shipping in a self-driven manner.
3. Solid experience developing software for the Cloud or systems engineering.
4. Ability to write clean, robust, and performant software easily maintained by others.

Nice to haves:

1. Experience with Kubernetes or building and operating a storage service.
2. Previous use of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles or hobby projects.
3. Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or willingness to learn.
4. Familiarity with on-call duties, operations/SRE tasks, or infrastructure as code concepts.

Benefits:

1. Competitive compensation including equity, bonus, and other benefits.
2. Opportunity to work with a diverse, remote-first global team.
3. Chance to contribute to open-source projects with wide-reaching impact.
4. Equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization.