Senior Backend Software Engineer - Loki | NASA | Remote

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform. The Databases team owns the telemetry databases Mimir (metrics), Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), and Pyroscope (profiles). Our databases are multi-tenant distributed systems implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across all major Cloud service providers. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer on the Loki team, you will design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, drive projects from ideation to operations, contribute to open-source projects, and mentor team members.

Responsibilities

Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability; 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 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; 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 cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

Requirements

Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, C, C++, Rust or similar); Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements and 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 have

Experience writing low level code for databases, storage layers, or query engines; Experience working with Kubernetes; Been a user of Grafana and/or Prometheus in operational roles; 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

Benefits

Equity; Bonus (if applicable); 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; 30 days annual leave per annum; 3 days of annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days; Company-funded AI tool usage budget; Access to latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google