Senior Backend Engineer (Go/Observability)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Go/Observability): Designing and implementing high-quality, scalable services for a multi-tenant distributed system with an accent on architectural strategy and cross-team collaboration. Focus on driving technical implementations, shaping long-term strategy, and ensuring resilient, high-performing systems for Grafana Cloud.

Location: Remote: Must be based in the UK

Salary: GBP 91,755 – GBP 110,106

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first, open-source company providing observability solutions with over 20M users globally.

What you will do

• Design and implement high-quality, scalable services to be consumed by multiple Grafana Cloud products.
• Collaborate with product, design, and documentation teams to develop features aligned with wider product strategy.
• 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.
• Work with other departments including Sales, Product, and Support to deliver a holistic product experience.
• Participate in your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of running services.

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.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (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.
• Must be based in the UK.

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, bringing together 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 environment with autonomy and support to ship great work.
• Open Source Roots, built on community-driven values.
• Empowered teams with a high trust, low ego culture valuing outcomes over optics.
• Defined career growth pathways and approachable leadership.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
• In-person onboarding for new 'Grafanistas' to learn about the company.