Senior Backend Engineer - Observability Ingest - Kubernetes Operator/Helm Chart | Germany | Remote

2 hours, 20 minutes ago
Full-time
Mid Level
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

  • Design, build, and maintain user-facing tools for deploying, configuring, and operating Grafana Alloy, the OpenTelemetry Collector, and related components.
  • Own and evolve the Helm chart ecosystem used across more than 10k clusters and 300k nodes.
  • Build and maintain tooling that works across Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, and macOS environments.
  • Support infrastructure-as-code integrations using ArgoCD, Terraform, Flux, and other GitOps tools.
  • Collaborate with support, product, and field engineering to turn customer pain points into durable improvements.
  • Review peer code, communicate progress transparently, and help raise the technical bar across the team.
  • Contribute upstream to open source projects including Grafana Alloy, OpenTelemetry, and Helm community charts.
  • Represent Grafana Labs in meetups, conferences, and social media forums.

Requirements

  • 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Experience with at least one major programming language, with Go preferred; Python and Rust are also welcome.
  • Hands-on Kubernetes experience, including deploying, operating, and debugging production workloads.
  • Familiarity with Helm and the Kubernetes resource model.
  • Experience building or maintaining tooling for external users or customers, with attention to API/UX design, backward compatibility, and upgrade paths.
  • Comfort writing and maintaining automated tests at unit, integration, and end-to-end levels.
  • Ability to work effectively in a remote-first, async, consensus-driven culture across time zones.
  • Strong communication skills for code review and customer-facing collaboration.
  • Direct experience with Grafana Alloy or the OpenTelemetry Collector is a plus.
  • Experience authoring or maintaining Helm charts is a plus.
  • Experience with GitOps tooling such as Terraform, ArgoCD, or Flux is a plus.
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) is a plus.
  • Experience building developer-facing CLIs or configuration tooling is a plus.
  • Familiarity with Loki, Mimir, Tempo, or Pyroscope is a plus.
  • Open source contribution experience is a plus.

Benefits

  • Remote-first role with a global, fully distributed culture.
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for all team members.
  • Germany compensation range of EUR 97,034 to EUR 116,441, with local market pay ranges discussed by recruiter for other locations.
  • Company-funded budget for AI coding assistants, with access to frontier models.
  • 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • In-person onboarding with fellow new hires.
  • Career growth pathways and opportunities to develop within the organization.
  • Transparent, high-trust, low-ego culture with open communication and approachable leadership.

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