Senior Software Engineer - Chaos Testing

At k6, we build next-generation reliability testing tools for developers and DevOps engineers. 

We are pushing the state-of-the-art in our industry, creating open-source tools focused on great developer experience. k6 is an open-source tool that we built to reinvent the engineering principles around testing.

As part of this vision we recently launched the xk6-disruptor project. xk6-disruptor is a k6 extension that allows the injection of faults into a system to simulate turbulent conditions. You can find more information about k6 and k6 disruptor in the following links:

• k6 project home
• xk6-disruptor project home
• xk6-disruptor documentation
• Chaos testing a microservices application with xk6-disruptor
• Running distributed k6 tests on Kubernetes

About the role

This is a remote position and we're considering candidates in the European time zones.

k6 is a tool used by engineers, and as such, we are looking for people enthusiastic about building high-quality tools they would want to use themselves.

You will be a part of the k6 team that focuses on chaos testing tools.We are looking for a person with a strong technical background that understands the challenges of developing distributed applications in Kubernetes and wants to contribute to k6’s mission of empowering engineers to build highly resilient systems.

Grafana Labs is an open source first company. We are looking for people passionate about collaborating with a diverse community in a technically challenging project.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Actively participate in the development of the project as a maintainer of the xk6-disruptor and related projects, contributing with new features, bug fixes, tests
• Contribute to the documentation and educational content
• Review contributions to the project and provide feedback to ensure quality
• Collaborate with other teams in Grafana on the adoption of the k6 chaos testing tool

Required skills

• Strong programming background
• Solid knowledge of the Go programming language, standard library, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Solid experience developing Kubernetes applications
• Familiarity with technologies and design patterns used in modern distributed applications (e.g. grpc, event streaming, service meshes, circuit breakers, et cetera)
• Good technical communication skills
• Familiarity with modern software engineering processes and practices

Not required, but great if you also have

• Familiarity with chaos engineering concepts and tools
• Experience contributing to open source projects
• Familiarity with the operator paradigm for managing Kubernetes resources
• Experience with test automation
• Familiarity with observability concepts and tools. Bonus for experience with Grafana’s LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir)