Staff Backend Engineer (Mimir Query, Databases)

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Backend Engineer, where you'll work on our telemetry databases, including Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles. You'll be responsible for optimizing the efficiency and resilience of processing, storing, and querying metrics at large volumes. This role offers the opportunity to influence our roadmap, drive projects from idea to operations, and embrace our open-source culture. Enjoy a fully remote work environment, generous vacation and healthcare benefits, and a focus on professional development.

• Conception, développement, exploitation et maintenance de systèmes critiques, en prenant en charge la fiabilité, la performance et la disponibilité.
• Participation active à l'influence de la feuille de route de l'équipe et à la réalisation de nouveaux projets, de l'idée initiale à l'exploitation.
• Collaboration avec les membres de l'équipe pour livrer de nouvelles fonctionnalités, puis utilisation des résultats pour itérer et améliorer.

• 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. You have good time management skills, which you leverage to work on the right things at the right time
• Experience and comfort developing with LLMs like Claude and Codex on your day to day
• Experience with leading and delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven and collaborative way
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
• Experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a squad. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication and time management skills are a must
• Pragmatism: You are able to 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
• Familiarity with observability systems, know when to use metrics, logs, traces, to debug a problem
• Comfortable with microservices architecture and distributed systems
• 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)
• Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol
• Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code