Senior Backend Engineer | Mimir OSS | Germany | Remote

2 hours, 36 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Grafana

Grafana

Grafana is the open observability platform providing analytics, monitoring, and visualization solutions with a focus on user control and cost efficiency.

IT Services
1K-5K
Founded 2014
$535M raised

Description

  • Contribute to the open-source Grafana Mimir project and Grafana Cloud Metrics platform.
  • Design, build, operate, and maintain critical distributed systems with ownership for reliability, performance, and availability.
  • Work with the team to deliver new features that solve customer problems and improve large-scale operations.
  • Drive projects from initial idea through delivery and operational support once customers are using them.
  • Write and review pull requests and design documents.
  • Help guide automated release rollouts and participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations.
  • Collaborate with teammates in design discussions and support other engineers on shared projects.
  • Identify and implement performance and reliability improvements from production operations.
  • Contribute to related open-source projects when relevant to the team’s goals.

Requirements

  • Solid experience with at least one programming language; Go is used, and familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar is beneficial.
  • Some experience delivering projects from requirements gathering and brainstorming through shipping to customers in a self-driven way.
  • Some experience developing software that runs in the cloud or experience in systems engineering.
  • Some experience with on-call work and the DevOps model.
  • Experience writing clean, robust, performant software that is maintainable by others.
  • Familiarity with observability systems and knowing when to use metrics, logs, and traces to debug issues.
  • Pragmatic approach to breaking complex problems into modular solutions with iterative delivery and feedback loops.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills for a fully remote team setup.
  • Experience working with Kubernetes (preferred).
  • Experience with queue systems such as the Kafka protocol (preferred).
  • Experience using Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (preferred).
  • Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn (preferred).
  • Familiarity with infrastructure as code (preferred).

Benefits

  • Remote-first, 100% remote global work environment.
  • Salary range in Germany of EUR 97,034 - EUR 116,441, depending on level, experience, and skillset.
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) included in all roles.
  • Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year.
  • 3 days of annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • Company-funded usage budget for AI coding assistants.
  • Access to frontier AI models for development workflows.
  • In-person onboarding for new hires.

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