Full-Time Senior Software Engineer

This is a remote position, and we are considering candidates based in the Canadian Eastern time zones.

About the Frontend Platform Squad

Our vision is to provide the best journeys for all of our users. We build the tools that allow users to search and navigate their way through the Grafana experience.

We do this by:

• Iterating on Grafana’s Navigation based on feedback from our customers and community.
• Improving the “Search and Organize” experiences with projects such as Nested Folders or Restore Dashboards.
• Owning and maintaining Internationalisation: we make sure the user experience is available in 5 languages: English, Chinese (simplified), Spanish, French and German.
• Building Grafana’s Design System empowering developers and designers to create consistent, intuitive and accessible user experiences.

We focus on

• Consistency: We strive to make our users’ journeys (both new and experienced) on grafana intuitive, pleasant and consistent.
• Reliability & Scalability: We enable developers to work effectively & make sure our systems are robust. We also focus on readability, maintainability and clarity of our code
• Being blameless: we focus on learning and improving ourselves and our product
• Users and Data: We support our variety of users and their needs by making decisions based on data that we obtain regularly by collaborating with UX and Product teams.
• Accessibility: We care about all of our users, we are dedicated to improving our UI and overall experience so that our product becomes more usable and accessible.

As a squad we embrace experimentation, lean principles, and encourage everyone to share their ideas and perspectives. 

We used to be exclusively frontend focused, but we are taking more and more projects that require fullstack ownership. 

What you’ll work on

• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
• 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
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in product discussions and collaborate with the team.

For your first project, you will likely focus on Query Library: Helping users get to meaningful data faster by allowing queries to be saved, reused and updated across a grafana instance.  

This role and the team are a good fit for you if

• You have a solid experience with building full stack applications (ideally using Go & React) using best practices, documentation and testing.
• You have knowledge about the kubernetes architecture and how to build services on top of it
• You have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product in a self-driven way
• You have experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company and understand the importance of communication 
• You value autonomy and enabling decisions over committees and red tape.
• You are eager to learn and grow. There is a lot of room for growth and development
• You know how to transform ideas into working code. you are able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself.
• You enjoy working on complex solutions 
• You enjoy working as a team. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. Supporting each other when needed. You like to mentor and teach others, especially the junior members of the team.
• You care deeply about user experience and the quality of the products that you work on.
• You care about our community of users and contributors