Software Engineer - Grafana k6 Cloud Data (Remote, EST/USA)
This is a remote position and we're considering candidates in the Americas EST timezones.
About ReliabilityTesting department and k6 cloud
The Reliability Testing department of Grafana consists of Grafana Cloud k6 (performance testing) and Grafana Synthetic Monitoring, both of which are based on the k6 OSS tool. We are pushing the state-of-the-art in our industry, creating open-source tools focused on a great developer experience. k6 was built to reinvent the engineering principles around performance testing with a mission to empower engineers to build highly resilient and scalable systems.
What will you be working on?
You will be a part of one of the teams that focuses on Grafana Cloud k6, our commercial performance testing product built around the OSS k6, targeted at users wanting to run performance tests at scale. Our SaaS offering allows customers to load test their systems by running distributed tests from 20+ regions worldwide, using hundreds of thousands of virtual users sending millions of requests per second. We ingest huge volumes of data generated by k6, which can be used to view, correlate, and analyze metrics from each test.
k6 is a product used by other engineers, and as such, we are looking for people enthusiastic about building high-quality tools they would want to use themselves. Due to our small teams and fast development pace, you will have a substantial and immediate impact on how the end product is architected, and how the engineering team operates. Most importantly, you will work with competent colleagues and will be able to expand your knowledge and skills in different directions.
The team you'll work with (k6 Cloud Data team) is developing the backbone of our cloud system and focuses on data processing and efficient storage of the vast amount of data generated by a test distributed in the cloud environment. It is also owning customer data and other integrations with Grafana cloud.
Your main responsibilities will be to:
- Pair up with a seasoned mentor to help you develop your skills
- Work with your team to develop, architect and operate large-scale distributed systems and storage solutions
- Participate in design reviews that shape the future of Grafana Cloud k6
- Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices
- Improve application reliability and observability
- Collaborate with other teams on delivering cross-functional features to the cloud product
- Participate in the On-Call rotation and ensure the high availability of our product
- Contribute to the documentation and/or educational content
Requirements:
- Good at DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Good familiarity with Python (Go is a plus)
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good technical communication skills
- Familiarity with modern software engineering processes and practices
- Enthusiasm about large-scale distributed systems
- Enthusiasm about test automation (performance tests, functional tests, etc.)
- Pair up with a seasoned mentor
Not required, but great if you also have
- Experience working with Go, and/or JavaScript
- Experience with AWS, Grafana stack
- Experience building event-driven systems
- Experience working with time-series data
- Affinity for developing testing frameworks
In the US, the base compensation range for this role is $123,933 - $148,719. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.
*Compensation ranges are country-specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
About Grafana Labs: There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.
Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.
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Grafana Labs provides an open and composable monitoring and observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. There are more than 5,000 Grafana Labs customers, including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom, and more than 20 million users of Grafana around the world. Grafana Labs helps companies manage their observability strategies with the LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise offerings, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo) as well as extensive enterprise data source plugins, dashboard management, alerting, reporting, and security.
Why Work With Us
Clear communication is vital in a remote-first company. We hold weekly team updates, monthly all-hands calls, co-located offsites, and annual events. We've enhanced hiring, onboarding, and training with a learning management tool and quarterly bootcamps. We offer 30 vacation days plus local holidays, with equal benefits for all employees globally.
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