Grafana Labs
Senior Backend Engineer- Grafana Backend Services| UK| Remote
Remote R&D: Grafana role with clear candidate location fit.
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Role overview
Senior Backend Engineer- Grafana Backend Services| UK| Remote
Requirements and responsibilities
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Senior Backend Engineer, Grafana Backend Services
- Work with your team to deliver new functionality, then use the results to iterate and improve
- Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features
- Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your career objectives
- 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
- Regularly sharing ideas and knowledge across a vast array of technical ideologies and mindsets
- Working closely with the other squads in the Grafana Division
Senior Backend Engineer, Grafana Backend Services
- Have solid backend development experience, ideally with Go
- Good understanding of storage solutions with an emphasis on relational databases like MySQL, SQLite, and Postgres
- Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on
- Have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming ideas to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
- Have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
- Have experience with mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment
- Enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technical solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows.
- Can take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve tight learning loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively
Senior Backend Engineer, Grafana Backend Services
- Experience with open-source software and/or commercial open-source companies
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, or Developer Efficiency work streams
- Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles
- Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks
- Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
Details
- 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. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
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