Senior Backend Engineer, Grafana Labs
Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring
$153-191.2k
Above salary range is applicable in US only and may vary in other locations. Plus equity
Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
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Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$153-191.2k
Above salary range is applicable in US only and may vary in other locations. Plus equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unite data, no matter where it lives, and empower its users to analyze, take action, and make smart decisions.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for Backend Engineers that are passionate about providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key
- For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We operate by consensus. You can contribute to a discussion, disagree constructively, and commit to the team’s decision. You are able to communicate design decisions clearly in written and spoken English
- You have at least a couple of years of experience as a Backend developer. We are a small team of seven, 4 of them engineers, working remotely on a product that will be used by engineers all over the world – the ability to work on your own is crucial
- You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a user-centered approach. You easily build an understanding of the users’ context and goals which will help you build the right solution with the maximum value
- You know how to transform ideas into working code – you are able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself
- You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and who care deeply about their workflows. You value code maintainability, readability & automation
- You are able to troubleshoot modern web application issues and work with profilers, debuggers, bundlers, and testing libraries
- Experience working with Kubernetes is a must and familiarity with Linux and Prometheus is also an advantage
What the job involves
- The Observability department focuses on opinionated solutions that will get customers up to speed quickly to monitor their infrastructure systems and software
- We own the Grafana Cloud integrations which provide easy to use pre-built dashboards and alerts to monitor a host of popular observability targets, as well as our SaaS integrations which are completely hosted solutions
- In particular, we are looking to expand the team that is working on improving the Kubernetes monitoring product
- Our tech stack is mostly made up of services written in Go, running on multiple Kubernetes clusters that leverage Google’s Cloud Platform
- As a Backend Engineer, you will be working on the Kubernetes monitoring product. You could also be contributing to one of our open-source projects. You will be collaborating with Product, UX, and Frontend engineers to turn their designs into great user experiences
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Work with your team to drive projects from initial ideation all the way to production, into 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 support rotation and take ownership of the services you’re running
- Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
- Interact with our customers to champion our product, whilst listening to their feedback to iterate and improve
Our take
Observability plays a crucial role in software development, where dashboards are pivotal for monitoring the health of IT infrastructure across an organization. However, for developers, the frustration of spending unnecessary time navigating between different dashboards to find the latest information detracts from valuable programming time.
Grafana collaborates closely with its clients to create customizable observability platforms, striving to enhance efficiency in observability. Its offerings include cloud-based data structures, dashboards, API plugins, and collaboration tools. Currently, FGrafana boasts over 21M active instances and approximately 10M users globally, with a customer base exceeding 2,000, including prominent names like Bloomberg, PJ Morgan Chase, eBay, PayPal, and Sony.
While Grafana provides free plans with a simplified tool package, the Grafana Enterprise Stack offers customized observability solutions on a monthly subscription basis. The company's ongoing strategy revolves around continually improving Grafana to meet users' demands, enhancing functionality with each iteration, and fostering community engagement by enabling users to share their Grafana dashboards with the broader open-source community.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2024
$270m
SERIES D
Apr 2022
$240m
SERIES D
Total funding: $805.2m
Company benefits
- Vacation: Balance is key. Our team enjoys 30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. We also take a breather on a number of Grafana Shutdown Days each year
- Healthcare: We’re proud to provide health coverage or stipends for our colleagues in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, and India
- Retirement planning: There’s no time like the present to start saving for your future. We make employer contributions into the pension pots of our team members in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany
- Professional development: On top of a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend, Grafanistas have thousands of on-demand courses at their fingertips to help them grow professionally. Want to attend a conference or training? Go ahead. Just pass on what you learned
- Work location: Vast majority of our roles are fully remote, focused on hiring the best talent and allowing you to perform from the comfort of your home. If you fancy a change of scene, we’ll also reimburse you up to $175 a month for a personal co-working space
- Choice of tech: There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to the tech required to do your job. Choose the laptop and accessories you need when you join us, and we’ll refresh them every three years
- Mindfulness: When you join the team, you can sign up for a complimentary subscription to Headspace to take advantage of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation. Our wellbeing resource group also organize sessions run by fellow Grafanistas or external trainers
- Fond Perks: Grafanistas across the world receive access to Fond, a platform that provides access to pre-negotiated discounts on a wide variety of services including entertainment, food, and fitness
- Global Employee Assistance Program: We offer all team members a 100% confidential support service with 24/7 365 access to professionally qualified counsellors and specialists
Company values
- Share openly and default to transparency
- Respectfully empowered
- OSS is in our DNA
- We keep our commitments
- Seek diverse perspectives
- Don't let perfect get in the way
- Help each other thrive
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Raj Dutt
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently a Board Member at NSONE. Previously founded Voxel where they served as the CEO for 12 years. They also served as the Senior Vice President of Technology at Internap Network Services.
Torkel Ödegaard
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Mälardalen University with a Master's in Computer Science. Founder of Coding Instinct. Previously worked as a Consultant at H&M, Avega, and Ebay.
Anthony Wood
(Co-Founder)Previously worked at Visa and Voxel as a Senior Systems Engineer. They also have Systems Engineering axperience at PalVision and iiNet.
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