Senior Software Engineer, Grafana (Remote, US EST)

Description

This is a remote position, and we are considering candidates based in the United States Eastern time zones.

About the Frontend Platform Squad

Our vision is to provide the best journeys for all of our users. We build the tools that allow users to search and navigate their way through the Grafana experience.

We do this by:

• Iterating on Grafana’s based on feedback from our customers and community.

• Improving the “Search and Organize” experiences with projects such as or .

• Owning and maintaining : we make sure the user experience is available in 5 languages: English, Chinese (simplified), Spanish, French and German.

• Building Grafana’s empowering developers and designers to create consistent, intuitive and accessible user experiences.

We focus on

• Consistency: We strive to make our users’ journeys (both new and experienced) on grafana intuitive, pleasant and consistent.

• Reliability & Scalability: We enable developers to work effectively & make sure our systems are robust. We also focus on readability, maintainability and clarity of our code

• Being blameless: we focus on learning and improving ourselves and our product

• Users and Data: We support our variety of users and their needs by making decisions based on data that we obtain regularly by collaborating with UX and Product teams.

• Accessibility: We care about all of our users, we are dedicated to improving our UI and overall experience so that our product becomes more usable and accessible.

As a squad we embrace experimentation, lean principles, and encourage everyone to share their ideas and perspectives.

We used to be exclusively frontend focused, but we are taking more and more projects that require fullstack ownership.

What you’ll work on

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

• 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

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.

• Mentor and support other team members, participate in product discussions and collaborate with the team.

For your first project, you will likely focus on Query Library: Helping users get to meaningful data faster by allowing queries to be saved, reused and updated across a grafana instance.

This role and the team are a good fit for you if

• You are a Full-Stack Developer (GO/React) with a primary focus on backend development.

• You have solid experience building full-stack applications following best practices such as documentation, and testing

• You have knowledge about the kubernetes architecture and how to build services on top of it

• You have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product in a self-driven way

• You have experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering

• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company and understand the importance of communication

• You value autonomy and enabling decisions over committees and red tape.

• You are eager to learn and grow. There is a lot of room for growth and development

• You know how to transform ideas into working code. you are able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself.

• You enjoy working on complex solutions

• You enjoy working as a team. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. Supporting each other when needed. You like to mentor and teach others, especially the junior members of the team.

• You care deeply about user experience and the quality of the products that you work on.

• You care about our community of users and contributors

We understand that you may not have experience on all of the above technologies. Please do apply even if you do not match some of the above criteria.

In the United States, the Base compensation range for this role is USD 148,505 - USD 178,206. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed .

*Compensation ranges are country-specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

About Grafana Labs: There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with  or self-managed with the , both featuring scalable metrics (), logs (), and traces ().

Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our .

Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.

We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.

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