Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope

📍 Canada

CAD 164,500-197,400 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value. About proficiency levels:

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.

Communication @ 7 Customer Support Distributed Systems @ 4 Go @ 3 Grafana IaC Kubernetes @ 4 Microservices Prometheus Python @ 3 Rust @ 3 SRE @ 4

Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements
Lead projects from concept to implementation, including ongoing customer support
Design, build, operate, and maintain essential systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability
Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee
Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues
Expand your skill set by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase
Work effectively in a remote-first setup with strong communication skills and the ability to work independently

Solid experience with at least one programming language (they use Go; familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar translates well)
Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements through shipping a product to customers
Strong experience with designing and developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
Experience with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code
Solid experience with distributed systems
Experience working with Kubernetes
Motivated self-starter with a bias toward action
Passion for creating intuitive products that fit customer needs
Pragmatism: break down complex challenges to achieve short feedback loops (analyze, design, build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather feedback, and iterate)
Collaboration and communication skills for a fully remote setup

Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
Exposure to microservices architecture
Databases backend experience

100% Remote, Global Culture
In-Person onboarding
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including 3 shutdown days
Roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success