
Staff Backend Engineer – Databases
Grafana Labs
full-time
Posted on:
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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
GoPythonCC++Rustcloud computingsoftware designdistributed systemsKubernetesinfrastructure as code
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationmentoringproblem-solvingpragmatismself-startercustomer focusintuitive product designteam engagementfeedback loops