Grafana Labs

Staff Backend Engineer – Databases

Grafana Labs

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $174,986 - $209,983 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements.
  • Lead projects from concept to implementation, including ongoing customer support.
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain essential systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
  • Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee.
  • Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues.
  • Expand your skill set by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase.

Requirements

  • You are a motivated self-starter with a bias toward action
  • We build everything with our users in mind.
  • You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs.
  • Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops.
  • Collaboration and communication: Good communication skills are a must.
  • Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, but familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar is acceptable).
  • Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product.
  • Strong experience with designing and developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering.
  • Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.
  • Experience with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or infrastructure as code.
  • Solid experience with distributed systems.
  • Experience working with Kubernetes.
Benefits
  • 100% Remote, Global Culture
  • Scaling Organization
  • Transparent Communication
  • Innovation-Driven
  • Open Source Roots
  • Empowered Teams
  • Career Growth Pathways
  • Approachable Leadership
  • Passionate People
  • In-Person onboarding
  • Balance is Key
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
GoPythonCC++Rustcloud computingsoftware designdistributed systemsKubernetesinfrastructure as code
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationmentoringproblem-solvingpragmatismself-startercustomer focusintuitive product designteam engagementfeedback loops