Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring
This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants based in Spain, Germany, the UK or Sweden at this time.Full-TimeStaff
Salary109,709 - 131,651 EUR per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of experience
- Required Skills
- PythonJavaKubernetesGoGrafana.NETPrometheusRustDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Strong 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language - any major language (Python, .NET, Java, Go, Rust, etc) is acceptable
- Demonstrated working experience in operating high-scale production systems running on Kubernetes and monitoring it, including on-call participation, incident response, and postmortem practices
- Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana)
- Strong understanding of time-series data, metrics cardinality challenges, and cost/performance tradeoffs/optimizations in observability systems
- Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role - setting technical direction, leading project teams, and influencing architectural decisions beyond your immediate team
- Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts including scalability, consistency, high availability, and failure modes in large-scale systems
- Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software
- Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Strong mentoring and leadership skills
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-quality, scalable integrations for various infrastructure components, applications, and data ingestion pipelines
- Create middleware components and libraries that simplify development and maintenance of observability solutions
- When necessary, represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events
- Work with product teams, in addition to design and docs, to develop features that align with wider product strategy and customer needs
- Lead the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions
- Work with other departments including Sales, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience
- Take ownership of the services you’re running by deploying well tested clean code
- Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
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