Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Query

Описание

Grafana Cloud is a composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. The Databases team owns the telemetry databases that are Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles. These databases are OSS projects that are also offered as a Cloud service supporting Grafana Cloud, and as an on-premise solution. They are multi-tenant distributed systems implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across all major Cloud service providers (GCP, Azure, AWS).

Responsibilities

• 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 ideation 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 on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
• Supporting 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 (Go, Python, C, C++, Rust or similar)
• 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
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• Motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• Customer focused, with a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• Pragmatism: able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops, to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• Good communication skills for working in a fully remote setup

Nice to have

• Experience working with Kubernetes and/or Docker
• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, and a desire to learn
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

We offer

• Base compensation range in Spain: 83,000 EUR - 104,000 EUR
• Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits
• 100% Remote, Global Culture
• Scaling Organization – tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment
• Transparent Communication – expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates
• Innovation-Driven – autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things
• Open Source Roots – built on community-driven values that shape how we work
• Empowered Teams – high trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics
• Career Growth Pathways – defined opportunities to grow and develop your career
• Approachable Leadership – transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human
• Passionate People – join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do
• In-Person onboarding to learn about what we do and how we do it
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum
• 3 days of annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days