Senior Backend Engineer - Grafana Enterprise Datasources

This is a full-time remote position. We are looking for candidates in Canadian Eastern time zones.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Enterprise Data Sources squad you will play a vital role in the development of a wide range of Enterprise plugins. Our goals revolve around building new enterprise data sources plugins, improving our existing plugins, supporting customers, and also building a more robust development and testing strategy. You are expected to collaborate on other projects across the Data Sources larger team and the Grafana division. We are currently on a growth track and are constantly reviewing our ways of working to make sure they are scalable and accessible to everyone.

• Data source plugins we own:

  • AppDynamics, Azure, BigQuery, DataBricks, DataDog, DB2, DynaTrace, Gitlab, HoneyComb, Jira, Looker, MongoDB, New, Oracle, SalesForce, SAP, Service, SignalFx, SnowFlake, Splunk, SQLyze/ODBC and Wavefront

• A typical “day in the life” could include:

  • Building full stack enterprise Grafana plugins to integrate third party services into Grafana

  • Innovating our plugin system to allow for enhanced capabilities

  • Coming up with suggestions for process improvements

  • Providing technical support in customer escalations

  • Working closely with the rest of the Grafana Division; Plugins Platform, UX, and Observability teams.

  • Regularly sharing ideas and knowledge across a vast array of technical ideologies and mindsets.

• What we are looking for:

  • You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind and respectful. We value autonomy and enabling decisions over committees and red tape. We are a distributed team, 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 have solid professional experience as a Full-stack developer.

  • You have strong coding skills and operational experience; you were responsible for operating the software you have built.

  • You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a user-centered approach.

  • You easily build an understanding of the users’ context and goals which will help you build the right solution that brings the biggest value to them.

  • 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 are a self-driven individual who understands the power of feedback loops in making roadmap decisions and driving our product forward.

  • You are able to communicate the design decisions clearly in written and spoken English.

  • You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows.

  • You have an active interest in the three observability pillars and how they come together to build a powerful workflow

• You'll have experience in some or all of the following:

  • HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript

  • React, Redux, and RxJS

  • Go

  • jest, react-testing-library and cypress

  • Docker, Kubernetes

  • Git

In the Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD 165,000 - CAD 199,000.  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.