Grafana Labs dezvoltă software open-source pentru observabilitate, destinat înțelegerii performanței și stării infrastructurii, aplicațiilor și sistemelor frontend. Platforma sa reunește metrici, jurnale, trasări și profiluri prin produse precum Grafana, Loki, Tempo și Mimir, ajutând organizațiile să vizualizeze datele, să monitorizeze serviciile, să investigheze anomaliile, să analizeze cauzele principale și să gestioneze obiectivele privind nivelul serviciilor. Grafana Labs oferă opțiuni de implementare în cloud și de autogestionare, cu integrări pentru tehnologii precum Prometheus și OpenTelemetry. Compania activează în sectoarele SaaS pentru întreprinderi și inteligenței artificiale și creează instrumente pentru echipele responsabile de monitorizarea infrastructurii și de observabilitatea modernă.
Senior Backend Engineer, Databases
Lead backend engineering for Tempo, Grafana Labs’ open-source distributed tracing system, across its database components. Improve scalable APIs, performance, reliability, and operations for Grafana’s observability products.
Descriere
- Set technical direction for complex Tempo roadmap challenges.
- Lead multi-month engineering initiatives from problem definition through rollout.
- Work with Staff engineers and the tech lead to shape direction across teams.
- Own components spanning ingestion, storage, querying, and metrics generation.
- Prepare and present design documents, and take part in design reviews.
- Balance performance, cost, and complexity when making technical decisions.
- Build structured, predictable, discoverable APIs for people, agents, products, and integrators.
- Deliver against SLOs including P99 write latency, recurring incidents, and cost per ingested GB.
- Reduce operational effort with configurable rollouts and actionable alerts.
- Coordinate with Product and related teams, including App Observability, Asserts, Drilldown, and Grafana Assistant.
- Support engineer growth through code reviews, design feedback, and pairing.
- Take part in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
- Contribute to Tempo and the open-source community, including reviewing external contributions.
- Advance trace aggregation, autoscaling, ingestion and query performance, multi-cell operations, and customer-facing limits.
Cerințe
- Demonstrated success delivering complex, multi-month projects from design through delivery and operations.
- Substantial hands-on experience building and operating production distributed data systems.
- Experience with ingestion pipelines, storage engines, query execution, or comparable systems.
- Strong software craftsmanship, with a focus on clean, reliable, efficient, maintainable code.
- Strong Go skills, or experience in Rust, C, or C++ with a path to Go.
- Experience owning production services and participating in pager rotations.
- Experience reducing operational toil and treating SLOs as a product capability.
- Customer-focused approach and pragmatic, iterative delivery.
- Clear written and verbal communication in a fully remote, asynchronous setting.
- Must be based in the United States or Canada.
Beneficii
- Restricted stock units (RSUs).
- Company-funded budget for AI coding assistants.
- Access to advanced models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
- Fully remote work and a global remote culture.
- Career development pathways.
- In-person onboarding.
- 30 days of annual leave, including three Grafana Shutdown Days.
- Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates.
- Autonomy and support to deliver high-quality work.
- Empowered, high-trust, low-ego culture.
- Global annual leave policy, subject to local law.