Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Query | Germany | Remote

Job description

About this role

Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo – 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 , Tempo 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 all 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 leverage Cloud object storage. We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction.

Responsibilities

• - 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

Qualifications and requirements

• - 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 intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• - Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress 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