Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Search & Storage | US | Remote

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the Grafana Search & Storage squad, building and operating Grafana's next-generation storage layer (Unified Storage), including Search and Folders, as part of the App Platform.

What you'll do

• Influence the roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Deliver new features with your team, then use results to iterate and improve.
• Drive projects from initial ideation through to operations once in the hands of customers.
• Contribute to open-source projects that may fall outside your team's scope.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning their reliability, performance, and availability.
• Take part in on-call rotations and own the services you run.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team.
• Learn the cloud product, customers, and the codebase of a large distributed system.

What you'll need

• Solid experience with Go, Rust, Python, or other similar programming languages.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with large distributed systems.
• Experience delivering projects from gathering requirements and brainstorming through to shipping to customers, in a self-driven way.
• Experience 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.
• A motivated self-starter with a bias towards action.
• Customer focus and a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs.
• Pragmatism: ability to take on complex challenges, break them down, and iterate with short feedback loops.
• Good communication and collaboration skills; an independent attitude is a must.

Nice to have

• Experience as a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call at a previous employer, or on hobby or homelab projects).
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks, or with the concept of infrastructure as code.

Details

• Remote role for candidates located in Canada and the US.
• Base/OTE compensation range in the US: USD $154,445 - $185,334, varying by level, experience, and skillset; includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• Fully remote team; regular video calls, with good communication skills a must.
• In-person onboarding is provided.