Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform (Remote, UK)
CloudFlare, Can be based anywhere
Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana App Platform (Remote, UK)
£121116
CloudFlare, Can be based anywhere
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted today, 14 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: b06ab02386044f4aab0a93701cff676f
Full Job Description
As our Cloud / Grafana-as-a-service business continues to grow, we've started to change Grafana's core architecture to be fully multi-tenant and scalable, as well as a solid platform for our opinionated Cloud apps. Who are we looking for? We're looking for someone with a lot of experience with SaaS platforms at scale. We are turning Grafana into a proper observability app platform where OSS and proprietary apps can directly tap into dashboards, alerts, incidents, and telemetry and deliver even more integrated experiences. To get there, we need to refactor a big part of Grafana so that its simpler and standardized. Grafana is used by countless OSS and Cloud users across different platforms, so planning and rolling out changes safely to avoid service disruptions is crucial; we are looking for someone who is excited about this sort of work., Coding new features, enhancing the operational experience of the systems you develop, and iteratively improving them based on production insights Authoring, contributing to and reviewing design documents Taking an active role in shaping the roadmap Mentoring and supporting other team members and collaborating with different teams across the organization Owning the experience of our customers by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and a separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations.
You have strong coding skills and operational experience; you were responsible for operating the software you have built. You have worked on a SaaS platform and dealt with common distributed systems problems (e.g. scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA, ) You have excellent communication skills. You can express your ideas with great clarity in writing and during meetings. You know when to pick which mode of communication. You are willing to work across teams. Your work has to be aligned with the needs of other squads and external stakeholders. You make your plans transparent, bring stakeholders on board, and are open to feedback and suggestions. You are pragmatic; you prioritize progress over perfection; you can handle ambiguity. You have professional experience with Golang
Grafana continues to be a highly successful open-source project, with over a million instances of our application running in the wild. Grafana is also the main frontend for Grafana Cloud where users can visualize their telemetry data and use our opinionated solutions for easier troubleshooting of their infrastructure and applications., 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 Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
In the United Kingdom, the Base compensation range for this role is GBP 100,930 - GBP 121,116 . 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 here.
- 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 markets defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.