Senior Software Engineer - Grafana K6

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Go): Building and maintaining k6, a performance testing tool written in Go, focusing on making performance testing practical and approachable. Focus on working directly on the product, the codebase, and with the community, delivering production-quality code.

Location: Applicants from Spain timezones

Salary: EUR 82,988 - EUR 99,586

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse.

What you will do

• Join a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining k6.
• Work on features and improvements across the k6 codebase, from initial idea through implementation and delivery.
• Collaborate closely with other engineers on design, implementation, and code reviews.
• Deliver production-quality code and maintain existing functionality.
• Help keep the system reliable and maintainable over time.

Requirements

• Strong experience building production software in Go, or another language with good support for concurrency and parallelism.
• Experience working on larger or long-lived codebases.
• The ability to work independently on scoped problems and deliver them to completion.
• Clear technical communication skills, especially in code reviews and design discussions.
• A good understanding of internet protocols such as HTTP, gRPC, and WebSockets, with some familiarity with lower-level networking concepts.
• Experience with modern development practices, including testing, code review, and iterative development.

Nice to have

• Contributing to or maintaining open-source projects.
• Prior experience using k6 in production, or contributing to the k6 project or ecosystem.
• Performance, reliability, or network testing and optimization.
• Distributed systems or cloud-based services.
• JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
• Backend systems for web or mobile applications.
• Tools and platforms such as Docker, AWS, microservices architectures, and observability tools like Grafana or APM systems.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture.
• Scaling Organization.
• Transparent Communication.
• Innovation-Driven.
• Open Source Roots.
• Empowered Teams.