Backend Engineer (Mimir)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Mimir): Maintaining the Mimir OSS project and operating Grafana Cloud Metrics across cloud providers with an accent on optimizing the efficiency and resilience of processing, storing, and querying metrics at large volumes. Focus on performance improvements and reliability through system operation and code contributions.

Location: Remote, must be based in the Canadian time zones

Salary: CAD 1129,392 - CAD 155,272

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with more than 20M users of Grafana around the globe.

What you will do

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Drive projects from initial idea all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability.
• Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running.
• Support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team.

Requirements

• Pragmatism: able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops.
• Collaboration and communication: Good communication and time management skills are a must.
• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, C, C++, Rust or similar).
• Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way.
• Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud _or_ some experience with systems engineering.
• Some experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model.

Nice to have

• Experience working with Kubernetes.
• Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol.
• Been a user of 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.
• Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.