Senior Backend Engineer (Grafana k6)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Grafana k6): Designing and implementing high-quality, scalable services for a multi-tenant distributed system with an accent on driving technical implementations across engineering teams and contributing to long-term strategy. Focus on taking synthetic monitoring capabilities to the next level, working across various Grafana Cloud products, and ensuring resilient, high-performing systems.

Location: Remote (Germany)

Salary: 97,034 EUR – 116,441 EUR

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first, open-source company providing observability solutions and visualization tools globally.

What you will do

• Design and implement high-quality, scalable services to be consumed by multiple Grafana Cloud products.
• Work with product teams, design, and documentation to develop features aligned with wider product strategy and customer needs.
• Support the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions.
• Represent hirify.global in open source forums, working groups, and events when necessary.
• Collaborate with other departments including Sales, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience.
• Participate in your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running.

Requirements

• Strong 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, .NET, Java, Rust).
• 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.
• Experience 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, debugging, mentoring, and leadership skills.
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management.

Nice to have

• Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects, with evidence of successful pull requests and community collaboration.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud platform internals.
• Strong understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote, global culture with talent from around the world.
• Opportunity to tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent communication, open decision-making, and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-driven culture with autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open source roots and empowered teams with high trust, low ego culture.
• Defined career growth pathways and approachable leadership.
• In-person onboarding to help new 'Grafanistas' thrive from day one.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.