Staff Backend Engineer (Grafana Backend Services)

TL;DR

Staff Backend Engineer (Grafana Backend Services): Delivering the best Grafana service to both On-Prem and Cloud customers in a unified, end-to-end manner, from ownership of the API codebase all the way to operation of its components with an accent on the Grafana Backend API itself and the CLI tool. Focus on influencing roadmap and career objectives, mentoring team members, and sharing ideas across technical ideologies.

Location: Canada (Remote)

Salary: $186,368 - $223,642 CAD

Company

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

What you will do

• Work with your team to deliver new functionality, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Contribute to and review design documents for upcoming features.
• Embrace open-source culture and contribute to other projects.
• Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and career objectives.
• Be part of the team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the other squads.

Requirements

• Have solid backend development experience, ideally with Go.
• Good understanding of storage solutions with an emphasis on relational databases like MySQL, SQLite, and Postgres.
• Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on.
• Have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming ideas to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way.
• Have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.
• Have experience with mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with open-source software and/or commercial open-source companies.
• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, or Developer Efficiency work streams.
• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles.
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• 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.
• Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.