Senior Software Engineer - k6 Core
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Grafana LabsObservability and Performance Testing
Canada (Remote), ESTFull-TimeSenior
SalaryCAD 164,490 - CAD 197,389
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- JavascriptTypeScriptGogRPCDistributed SystemsNetworking
Requirements
- Strong experience building production software in Go, or another language with support for concurrency and parallelism.
- Experience working on larger or long-lived codebases.
- Ability to work independently on scoped problems and deliver them to completion.
- Clear technical communication skills for code reviews and design discussions.
- Solid understanding of internet protocols such as HTTP, gRPC, and WebSockets.
- Familiarity with lower-level networking concepts.
- Experience with modern development practices including testing, code review, and iterative development.
- Bonus: Contributing to or maintaining open-source projects.
- Bonus: Prior experience using k6 in production.
- Bonus: Experience with performance, reliability, or network testing and optimization.
- Bonus: Experience with distributed systems or cloud-based services.
- Bonus: Familiarity with JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain k6, an open-source performance testing tool written in Go.
- Work on features and improvements across the k6 codebase from idea through delivery.
- Evaluate trade-offs and choose technical approaches for partially specified problems.
- Collaborate with other engineers on design, implementation, and code reviews.
- Deliver production-quality code and maintain system reliability and maintainability.
- Work on k6 cloud services supporting distributed execution and performance.
- Maintain the open-source project and engage with the community.
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