
Senior Backend Engineer
Grafana Labs
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$146,000 - CA$175,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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 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
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- equity
- bonus (if applicable)
- 30 days annual leave
- remote work options
- in-person onboarding
- professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
GoPythonCC++Rustcloud computingsystems engineeringDevOpssoftware developmentobservability systems
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingself-driventeam supportdesign discussionsownershipiterationinfluencelearning