Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Ingest

📍 Germany

EUR 97,000-121,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.

Compliance Distributed Systems Docker @ 4 Go @ 3 Grafana @ 1 IaC Kubernetes @ 4 Microservices Prometheus Python @ 3 Rust @ 3 SRE @ 3

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 ideation 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, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
Supporting other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Experience working with Kubernetes and/or Docker
Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, and a desire to learn
Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

Equity, bonus (if applicable), and other benefits listed here: https://grafana.com/about/careers/#jobs
100% Remote, global culture
30 days of annual leave per annum, with 3 reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days (global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum; compliance with local legislation where applicable)
In-person onboarding