Senior Backend Engineer
Job Description
As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Partner Data Sources squad you will play a vital role in the development of data sources: plugins that provide visual query editors and the underlying mechanics to query and transform observability data for use in Grafana. The data sources owned by the Partner Data Sources squad are built in close partnership with the cloud service providers and independent software vendors responsible for the services these connect to.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Partner Data Sources squad you will play a vital role in the development of data sources: plugins that provide visual query editors and the underlying mechanics to query and transform observability data for use in Grafana. The data sources owned by the Partner Data Sources squad are built in close partnership with the cloud service providers and independent software vendors responsible for the services these connect to.
Job Requirements
You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key. We are a distributed team (Western Europe to Eastern Americas), working remotely on a product that will be used by engineers all over the world – the ability to work on your own, and ship working code is crucial.
You are comfortable mentoring other team members, participating in design discussions and otherwise collaborating with the team while being friendly, kind, and respectful.
You are comfortable managing external stakeholder relationships, as well as balancing internal and external priorities. You are comfortable providing a technical perspective in calls with external partners.
You have professional experience working with Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud.
You have professional experience with Golang or a comparable programming language, and are comfortable working in both backend and frontend code.
You have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.
You value DevOps principles and design for your own team’s operations.
You have an active interest in the domain of software observability.
