Senior Backend Engineer - Grafana k6 | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. The company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the synthetics squad, who build and operate their monitoring product: a multi-tenant distributed system implemented in Go and running on Kubernetes across all major Cloud service providers (GCP, Azure, AWS). The successful candidate will have strong leadership skills, experience working with Kubernetes, and a passion for observability and software engineering.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language
• Demonstrated experience working with and monitoring Kubernetes in a production environment
• Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner
• Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, setting technical direction and leading project teams
• Experience with distributed systems
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management

Benefits

• Generous Base compensation range for this role is GBP 91,755 - GBP 110,106
• All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum
• 3 days of annual leave entitlement reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
• Equal Opportunity Employer