Backend Engineer - Mimir | USA | Remote at Grafana Labs in Remote

Summary: Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source company with over 20 million users of its visualization tool. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to join their Mimir squad, focusing on optimizing and maintaining critical systems for metrics, ensuring performance and reliability in a collaborative environment. Responsibilities: - 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 idea 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 - 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 Required Qualifications: - 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 - Some experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model - Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others - Familiarity with observability systems, know when to use metrics, logs, traces, to debug a problem - You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action - You are customer focused - You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs - You have good time management skills, which you leverage to work on the right things at the right time - Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback 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 squad. You'll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication and time management skills are a must Preferred Qualifications: - Experience working with Kubernetes - Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol - 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 the concept of infrastructure as code Required Skills: Go, Cloud experience, Observability systems Important Skills: Kubernetes, Microservices architecture Nice-to-Have Skills: Python, C, C++, Rust, Kafka, Infrastructure as code, Collaboration, Communication, Time management Benefits: Equity, Bonus (if applicable), 30 days per annum annual leave policy, 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days