Senior Backend Software Engineer - GrafanaOps - Alerting (Remote, Americas EST)

This is a full time remote role for the Americas Eastern time zone.

About Grafana Cloud:

Our Grafana Cloud pipeline moves millions of data points, log lines and traces per second from our customer's environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores the data, and serves it to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability and do it all more efficiently.

Backend engineering roles at Grafana require engineers with a passion for performance, reliability, and who enjoy taking projects from conception to production. Grafana Alerting is a fully open-source product, based on the Prometheus Alertmanager, that requires performant and well thought out APIs, but more importantly the open source collaboration and aptitude.

Since we deploy production services, we have on-call rotations to ensure the health of the system. Grafana Alerting is used by both open-source users and Fortune 500 companies, giving a variety of challenges to face. We dogfood our own services, so being on call is an important way to understand our system and how to use the products we create.

Our culture is one of remote-first, and our engineering organization is largely remote. We provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, and we need people who can work independently and can communicate well.

We care deeply about open source and the projects generally are open source, check them out: https://github.com/grafana. We primarily use Go.

Requirements:

• You are familiar with programming languages like Go, C, C++, or Rust
• You are able to write clean, robust and performant software
• You have experience with network programming or distributed systems development
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar container runtime technologies.
• Experience with Cassandra / Kafka or other distributed databases.

Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with operations/SRE
• Experience with time-series databases, especially Prometheus
• Experience with the monitoring space in general (metrics, logging, tracing, observability)

Our hiring process:

• Video chat with one of our Talent Managers (30 mins)
• Video chat with 2 Hiring Managers (30 mins)
• Live Coding Interview with 2 Engineers (60 mins)
• Systems Design focused interview (45 mins)

In the United States, the base compensation range for this role is $116,000 to $140,000. 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.