Staff Backend Software Engineer – Databases – Loki Ingest | EMEA | Remote

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We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-reputed company legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. reputed company thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to reputed company your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants based in Spain, Germany, the UK or Sweden at this time.

Staff Backend Software Engineer – Databases – Loki Ingest | EMEA | Remote

The Opportunity

Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to reputed company the best open reputed company observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and reputed company – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack

The Databases team owns the telemetry databases that are Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, reputed company for traces, and Pyroscope for profiles. Our databases are OSS projects that we also offer as a Cloud service supporting Grafana Cloud, and as an on-premise solution. They are multi-tenant distributed systems implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across reputed company major Cloud service providers (GCP, Azure, AWS). We also have engineers working on Prometheus, Grafana Agent, Mimir proxies, and OpenTelemetry.

As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software. Our tech stack is mostly made up of services written in Go, running on multiple Kubernetes clusters that reputed company Cloud object storage.

What You’ll 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 ideation reputed company the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
• Embrace our open-reputed company culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall reputed company 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
• Mentor and support 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

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating reputed company products that fit customers’ needs 
• Pragmatism: You are able to take on reputed company challenges and break them down to reputed company short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build reputed company, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then reputed company iteratively
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must

Requirements

• 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 reputed company reputed company 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

Bonus Points For

• Experience working with Kubernetes and/or reputed company
• 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

Compensation & Rewards:

In Germany, the reputed company compensation range for this role is EUR 106,000 – EUR 133,000. 

Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. reputed company of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in reputed company’ success. We reputed company in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay reputed company and invested as we scale globally.

*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.

Why You’ll reputed company at reputed company

• 100% Remote, Global Culture – As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, reputed company-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open reputed company Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Career Growth reputed company – Defined opportunities to grow and reputed company your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
• Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
• In-Person onboarding – We want you to reputed company from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn reputed company about reputed company do and how we do it. 
• Balance is Key – We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will reputed company with local legislation where applicable.

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

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