Senior Backend Engineer - Alerting - UK - Remote

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Grafana Labs · United Kingdom

£92K–£110K/yrFull-timeRemoteToday

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About the role

The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project (link) , and our mission is to provide the most in-depth way to let users manage their alerts. The backend-focused team works closely with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-prem and at infinite scale in Cloud. Our domain is quite large, so to get an idea of the kind of work we do, here are some projects we recently worked on: Build distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts Unify Alerting setup and delivery to work the same for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts Build distributed systems to scale alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production. Grafana Alerting is trusted by major organizations worldwide, monitoring essential medical devices and critical infrastructure. We thrive on collective creativity and diverse perspectives, every team member is encouraged to contribute ideas that shape our product into a dependable tool.

Responsibilities

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 ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers

Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team's scope

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

Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action

You are customer focused

We build everything with our users in mind.

You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs

Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively

Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You'll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must

Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well

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

Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

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