Backend Software Engineer - Mimir Ingest | Germany | Remote

About Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse with over 20M users of its Grafana visualization tool globally. The company also supports over 3,000 businesses with its Grafana LGTM Stack, featuring Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for traces, available via Grafana Cloud or Grafana Enterprise Stack. Grafana Labs is committed to an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and meaningful work in an innovation-driven environment that values transparency, autonomy, and trust.

This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants based in Spain, Germany, Ireland the UK or Sweden at this time.

Backend Software Engineer - Mimir Ingest

The Opportunity:

Grafana Cloud is a composable observability platform integrating metrics, logs, traces, and profiles with Grafana. It allows customers to use open-source observability software like Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo without the operational overhead. The Databases team manages these telemetry databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) as a hosted service in Grafana Cloud and as on-premise solutions. These are multi-tenant distributed systems built with Go, running on Kubernetes across major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).

The Mimir squad focuses on the Ingest, Storage, and Query aspects of the Mimir OSS project and Grafana Cloud Metrics. Engineers optimize the efficiency and resilience of processing, storing, and querying metrics at scale. Work involves large-scale projects, performance and reliability improvements, code reviews, release management, and on-call duties.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Influence the roadmap and your career objectives.
• Collaborate with your team to deliver and iterate on new features.
• Drive projects from conception to operation.
• Contribute to open-source projects beyond your team's scope.
• Build, operate, and maintain critical systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
• Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations.
• Support team members, engage in design discussions, and collaborate effectively.
• Develop new skills by understanding the cloud product, customers, and the codebase of a large distributed system.

As a remote-first company, strong communication and an independent attitude are essential.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Motivation and Action: A self-starter with a bias towards action, customer focus, and a passion for building intuitive products. Strong time management skills are crucial.
• Pragmatism: Ability to take direction, plan, analyze, design, build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather feedback, and iterate.
• Collaboration and Communication: Effective communication and time management skills are vital for remote teamwork within a squad structure.
• AI Familiarity: Experience using LLMs for coding tasks and understanding codebases is a plus.
• Programming Experience: Familiarity with Go, Python, C, C++, or Rust.
• Project Delivery: Experience delivering projects as part of a team, from requirements gathering to shipping features.
• Cloud/Systems Engineering: Experience with cloud environments or systems engineering.
• DevOps/On-Call: Experience with on-call rotations and the DevOps model.
• Software Quality: Proven ability to write clean, robust, and performant, maintainable software.
• Observability Knowledge: Familiarity with observability systems (metrics, logs, traces).

Bonus Points For:

• Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with queue systems (e.g., Kafka protocol).
• User of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles.
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code.

Compensation and Benefits (Germany):

• Compensation Range: EUR 76K - EUR 95K (actual compensation varies by level, experience, and skillset).
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) included.
• Compensation ranges are country-specific.

Why You'll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

• 100% Remote, Global Culture: Collaborative, purpose-driven, worldwide talent.
• Scaling Organization: Meaningful work in a high-growth environment.
• Transparent Communication: Open decision-making and company updates.
• Innovation-Driven: Autonomy and support for new ideas.
• Open Source Roots: Community-driven values.
• Empowered Teams: High trust, low ego culture focused on outcomes.
• Career Growth Pathways: Defined opportunities for development.
• Approachable Leadership: Involved, visible, and human executives.
• Passionate People: Smart, supportive colleagues.
• In-Person Onboarding: Comprehensive onboarding with new hires.
• Balance is Key: 30 days annual leave, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days. Compliance with local legislation.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Grafana Labs is committed to equality and diversity, recruiting, compensating, and promoting individuals regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

Grafana Labs may use AI tools in recruitment, but the recruitment team manually reviews all CVs.

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Benefits

• 30 days annual leave
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Remote work
• In-person onboarding

Salary

• Min: 76000 EUR
• Max: 95000 EUR

Remote Model

• Remote

Country Code

• de