Senior Software Engineer - k6 Core
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Grafana LabsObservability/Performance Testing
United KingdomFull-TimeSenior
SalaryGBP 91,755 - GBP 110,106
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- GitGogRPCDistributed SystemsNetworking
Requirements
- Strong experience building production software in Go, or another language with good 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, especially in code reviews and design discussions.
- Good 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.
- Nice to have: Contributing to or maintaining open-source projects.
- Nice to have: Prior experience using k6 in production.
- Nice to have: Familiarity with performance, reliability, or network testing.
- Nice to have: Experience with distributed systems, cloud services, JavaScript, TypeScript, Docker, or AWS.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain k6, an open-source performance testing tool written in Go.
- Contribute to the full development lifecycle of features, from initial idea through implementation and delivery.
- Evaluate technical trade-offs and choose sound approaches for problems that are not fully specified.
- Collaborate with other engineers on design, implementation, and code reviews.
- Support k6 cloud services, focusing on performance, correctness, and failure modes in distributed execution.
- Ensure the system remains reliable, maintainable, and performs well under real-world load.
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