Senior Backend Software Engineer (Loki, NASA)

Join Grafana Labs as a Senior Backend Software Engineer. You will be part of the Databases team, responsible for the telemetry databases Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope. Your role will involve designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical systems, influencing the roadmap, and mentoring other team members. You will work remotely and enjoy a range of benefits, including 30 days of paid vacation, healthcare coverage, retirement planning, and professional development opportunities.

• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, ensuring their reliability, performance, and availability.
• Drive projects from initial ideation through to operations, taking ownership of the services you run.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team.

• Some experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
• Some experience delivering projects from gathering requirements and brainstorming ideas through to shipping a product to customers in a self-driven way
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust, or a similar language translates well
• Experience using Grafana and/or Prometheus in operational roles, including on-call work or hobby and homelab projects
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks, or with the concept of infrastructure as code
• Experience writing low-level code for databases, storage layers, or query engines
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
• Experience working with Kubernetes