Staff Backend Software Engineer - Databases - Loki Ingest

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 Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others Experience working with Kubernetes and/or Docker Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, and a desire to learn Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

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 Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability 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