Senior Backend Engineer - Multitenancy Team - Grafana Division (Remote, Americas timezones)

This is a remote role for the American Region.

About the Multitenancy team

The Grafana division consists of 20 teams, and more than 100 people all working on a single, monolithic codebase - the OSS Grafana project with Enterprise extensions. As part of the Multitenancy team, you will be responsible for helping to decompose the monolith into a set of standalone services, so that all other teams can iterate quicker, and operate with a higher degree of autonomy.

The team heavily collaborates with the core Grafana teams to ensure that the new architectural patterns are well understood, fit into the broader organizational strategy, and help with solving challenges posed by each of the Grafana deployment modes (OSS, Enterprise on-premise, and Cloud).

Should you decide to join us, you will have the opportunity to take part in a large-scale evolution of the Grafana backend, transforming it from a single binary into an easily scalable and extensible App Platform enabling a whole new ecosystem of observability apps. 

What will you be doing? 

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives 
• 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 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 OSS and Cloud products, and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

What are we looking for in you? 

• 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
• Pragmatism. You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve tight learning loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must

Requirements:

• 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
• Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Nice to haves:

• 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)
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

In the United States, the Base (OTE for commission positions) compensation range for this role is $148,000 - $185,000.  Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.