Remote Senior Backend Engineer Job in UK Grafana Labs

Who you are

• Motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• Customer focused
• Passion for creating intuitive products
• Able to take on complex challenges
• Break them down to achieve short feedback loops
• Analyze, design, and build modular solutions
• Deliver MVPs
• Gather data and feedback
• Progress iteratively
• Collaboration and communication
• Good communication skills
• Solid experience with at least one programming language
• Some experience with delivering projects
• Experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software

Desirables

• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience working with Kafka
• User of Grafana and Prometheus
• Exposure to microservices architecture
• Familiarity with being on-call
• Experience 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 projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
• 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 follow-the-sun 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