TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Go): Building and optimizing large-scale, high-performance distributed systems for metrics (Grafana Mimir) with an accent on efficiency, resilience, and reliability. Focus on designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical systems, ensuring their performance and availability under massive volumes.

Location: Remote for candidates in the UK, Sweden, Spain and Germany.

Salary: GBP 91,000–GBP 114,000

Company

%hirify_global% is a remote-first, open-source company providing observability solutions with Grafana, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo.

What you will do

Influence the roadmap and deliver new features for Grafana Mimir.
Drive projects from initial idea to operation and customer delivery.
Contribute to open-source projects beyond your team’s scope.
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations for the systems you own.
Support other team members and collaborate on design discussions.

Requirements

Pragmatism: ability to take on complex challenges and break them down for iterative delivery.
Strong collaboration and communication skills in a fully remote setup.
Solid experience with Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar programming languages.
Experience delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product.
Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or with systems engineering.
Experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model.
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software.
Familiarity with observability systems (metrics, logs, traces) for debugging.

Nice to have

Experience working with Kubernetes.
Experience working with queue systems (e.g., Kafka protocol).
User experience with Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles.
Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn.
Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code.

Culture & Benefits

100% remote, global culture with talent from around the world.
Opportunities to tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
Transparent communication, innovation-driven culture, and empowered teams.
Open-source roots guiding how we work.
Defined career growth pathways and approachable leadership.
In-person onboarding for new Grafanistas.
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.