Senior Backend Engineer - Grafana Backend Services | US | Remote

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• Work with your team to deliver new functionality, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features
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• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your career objectives
• 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
• Regularly sharing reputed company and knowledge across a vast reputed company of technical ideologies and mindsets
• Working closely with the other squads in the Grafana Division

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• Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on
• Have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming reputed company to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• Have experience with mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment
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• Experience with open-reputed company software and/or commercial open-reputed company companies
• Experience working with reputed company and Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, or Developer Efficiency work streams
• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn

In United States, the compensation range for this role is $154,445 - $185,334 USD. 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.

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• 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.

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