Staff Software Engineer - Loki Query (Remote, EMEA)

Job Description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Backend Software Engineer to work on Loki Query within the Databases team. This role involves influencing the roadmap, delivering new features, driving projects from ideation to operation, contributing to open-source projects, and maintaining critical systems. The engineer will also participate in on-call rotations, mentor team members, and learn new skills related to Grafana Cloud.

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
• 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

Requirements:

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred)
• Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering to product shipping
• Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software

The role offers:

• Opportunity to work on open-source projects
• Remote work environment
• Equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits