Backend Engineer, Grafana Labs

Grafana Operations, IRM

CA$115.6-138.2k

+ Equity

Kubernetes
Python
Go
C++
C
Rust
Prometheus
Grafana
Senior level
Remote in Canada
Grafana Labs

Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform

Job no longer available

Grafana Labs

Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform

1001+ employees

B2BAnalyticsVisualisationSaaSData Analysis

Job no longer available

CA$115.6-138.2k

+ Equity

Kubernetes
Python
Go
C++
C
Rust
Prometheus
Grafana
Senior level
Remote in Canada

1001+ employees

B2BAnalyticsVisualisationSaaSData Analysis

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

  • You are a motivated self-starter with a bias towards action
  • You are customer-focused
  • We build everything with our users in mind
  • You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
  • Pragmatism: You can 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
  • Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
  • Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go and Pytthon, but if you are familiar with C, C++, Rust, or similar, that translates well
  • Some experience with delivering projects, from gathering requirements and 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

Desirable

  • Experience working with Kubernetes
  • 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 or a desire to learn
  • Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

What the job involves

  • Our products are built on Grafana's open-source observability platform, which integrates alerting, SLOs, on-call, and incident management
  • We are looking for an engineer to help us grow and develop our Incident Response Management platform
  • Grafana IRM is trusted by major organizations worldwide, monitoring essential medical devices and critical infrastructure
  • We thrive on collective creativity and diverse perspectives, every team member is encouraged to contribute ideas that shape our product into a dependable tool
  • Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your career objectives
  • Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
  • Drive projects from initial ideation to operations once they are in customers' hands
  • 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
  • Mentor and support 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

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

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.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

49% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Apr 2022

$240m

SERIES D

Aug 2021

$220m

SERIES C

Total funding: $535.2m

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

Founders

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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