Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Backend Services (Remote, USA)

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Requirements:

• Have solid experience with Go.
• Good understanding of storage solutions with an emphasis on relational databases like MySQL, SQLite, and Postgres.
• Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on.
• Have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming ideas to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way.
• Have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.
• Have experience with mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment.
• Enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technical solution.
• Can take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve tight learning loops: analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively.

Responsibilities:

• Work with your team to deliver new functionality, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features.
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope.
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your career objectives.
• 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.
• Regularly sharing ideas and knowledge across a vast array of technical ideologies and mindsets.
• Working closely with the other squads in the Grafana Division.