Senior Backend Engineer - Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring (Remote, US/Canada)

This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in US and Canada only.

What is Grafana Cloud? 

Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack

The Observability department focuses on opinionated solutions that will get customers up to speed quickly to monitor their infrastructure systems and software. We own the Grafana Cloud integrations which provide easy to use pre-built dashboards and alerts to monitor a host of popular observability targets, as well as our SaaS integrations which are completely hosted solutions. In particular, we are looking to expand the team that is working on improving the Kubernetes monitoring product.

As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software. We are looking for Backend Engineers that are passionate about providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team! Our tech stack is mostly made up of services written in Go, running on multiple Kubernetes clusters that leverage Google’s Cloud Platform.

Requirements

• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key.
• For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We operate by consensus. You can contribute to a discussion, disagree constructively, and commit to the team’s decision. You are able to communicate design decisions clearly in written and spoken English.
• You have at least a couple of years of experience as a Backend developer. We are a small team of seven, 4 of them engineers, working remotely on a product that will be used by engineers all over the world – the ability to work on your own is crucial.
• You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a user-centered approach. You easily build an understanding of the users’ context and goals which will help you build the right solution with the maximum value.
• You know how to transform ideas into working code – you are able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself.
• You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and who care deeply about their workflows. You value code maintainability, readability & automation.
• You are able to troubleshoot modern web application issues and work with profilers, debuggers, bundlers, and testing libraries.
• Experience working with Kubernetes is a must and familiarity with Linux and Prometheus is also an advantage.

What you'll be doing

As a Backend Engineer, you will be working on the Kubernetes monitoring product. You could also be contributing to one of our open-source projects. You will be collaborating with Product, UX, and Frontend engineers to turn their designs into great user experiences.

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives 
• Work with your team to drive projects from initial ideation all the way to production, into 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 support rotation and take ownership of the services you’re running
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
• Interact with our customers to champion our product, whilst listening to their feedback to iterate and improve

Technologies you'll work with

• PromQL
• Typescript
• Helm

Nice to have technologies

• Go
• Jsonnet 

In the US, the Base compensation range for this role is USD 152,960 - USD 191,200. 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 listed here.

*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process