Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Go): Building and optimizing high-load backend services for distributed telemetry databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) with an accent on efficiency, resilience, and scalability. Focus on designing, building, operating, and maintaining critical systems for metrics, logs, and traces at large volumes in a multi-tenant environment.

Location: Remote (United States time zones)

Salary: USD 154,445 – USD 185,334

Company

hirify.global is a remote-first, open-source company providing a composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana for over 3,000 companies.

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 and iterate based on results.
• Drive projects from initial idea all the way to operations.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning 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

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, C, C++, Rust or similar).
• Experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product.
• Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering.
• Experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model.
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.
• Familiarity with observability systems, knowing when to use metrics, logs, traces, to debug a problem.
• Must work in United States time zones.

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 fostering collaboration and shared purpose.
• Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates with transparent communication.
• Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things in an innovation-driven environment.
• High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.