Senior Backend Engineer - Mimir | UK | Remote

Pragmatism: 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 skills Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, but Python, C, C++, Rust or similar 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 Experience working with Kubernetes (Bonus) Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol (Bonus) Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (Bonus) Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn (Bonus) Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code (Bonus)

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