Remote Principal Backend Engineer Job in UK Grafana Labs

Who you are

• Solid experience with at least one programming language
• Familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar translates well
• Experienced with delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping
• Solid experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software

Desirables

• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with infrastructure as code

What the job involves

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Drive innovations from initial ideation to operations once it is in the hands of customers
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of services
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team