Senior Backend Engineer - Synthetic Monitoring | Germany | Remote

Requirements

• Strong 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language
• Demonstrated experience working with and monitoring Kubernetes in a production environment
• Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner
• Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, setting technical direction and leading project teams
• Experience with distributed systems
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management

Bonus Points For

• Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects, with evidence of successful pull requests and community collaboration
• In-depth knowledge of cloud platform internals
• Strong understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and implement high-quality, scalable services to be consumed by multiple Grafana Cloud products
• Work with product teams, in addition to design and docs, to develop features that align with wider product strategy and customer needs
• Support the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions
• Represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events when necessary
• Collaborate with other departments including Sales, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience
• Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you're running
• Contribute to other projects within the open-source culture

Perks and Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture
• Scaling Organization
• Transparent Communication
• Innovation-Driven
• Open Source Roots
• Empowered Teams
• Career Growth Pathways
• Approachable Leadership
• Passionate People
• In-Person Onboarding
• Balance is Key
• Equal Opportunity Employer