About the Role
About Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions.
Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital.
What is Grafana Cloud?
Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.
About the Databases Team
The Databases team owns and operates the telemetry databases that are Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles. Our databases are offered as a hosted service in Grafana Cloud, and additionally as on-premise solutions with Grafana Enterprise Metrics, Grafana Enterprise Logs, and Grafana Enterprise Traces. They are multi-tenant distributed systems implemented in Go and operating at scale on Kubernetes across all major Cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
About the Mimir Squad
The Mimir squad has 3 sub-squads, Ingest, Storage, and Query, which together maintain the Mimir OSS project, and additionally own and operate Grafana Cloud Metrics across 3 major cloud providers. Engineers on the team focus on optimizing the efficiency and resilience of processing, storing, and querying metrics at large volumes.
What Will You Be Doing
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
- Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
- Drive projects from initial idea all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers.
- Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope.
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems.
Requirements
Backend development
Experience in backend development, particularly with distributed systems.
Go programming
Proficiency in Go programming language is essential for this role.
Kubernetes knowledge
Familiarity with Kubernetes for deploying and managing applications.
Database management
Experience with telemetry databases and data processing.
Nice to Have
Experience contributing to open-source projects is a plus.
Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud services.
Benefits
Remote work
This position is fully remote, allowing for flexible work arrangements.
Diverse team culture
Join a global team that values diverse experiences and backgrounds.