Senior Backend Software Engineer, Alerting

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer, Alerting: Building distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts with an accent on unifying alerting setup and delivery for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts. Focus on scaling alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production.

Location: Remote (Sweden)

Salary: SEK 775,444 - SEK 930,533

Company

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

What you will do

• Influence the 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 ideation 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 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 team.

Requirements

• This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applications from Sweden.
• Motivated self-starter with a bias towards action and customer focused.
• Passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs.
• Good communication skills are a must.
• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, Java, 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.

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.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum.