About the job
Grafana Labs is a leading open-source innovator with a remote-first work culture. With over 20 million users globally, our acclaimed visualization tool, Grafana, empowers individuals and organizations to monitor a vast array of systems—from environmental changes to technology infrastructures. Our engaging dashboards have been featured in high-profile events, including NASA launches and international sporting events such as Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Additionally, we support over 3,000 enterprises, including industry giants like Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay, in enhancing their observability strategies through our Grafana LGTM Stack, available both as a fully managed service via Grafana Cloud and a self-managed option with Grafana Enterprise Stack, which includes scalable solutions for metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
As we rapidly scale, we remain committed to our core values: an open-source heritage, a collaborative global culture, and a dedication to impactful work. Our team flourishes in an innovation-driven atmosphere where transparency, autonomy, and trust are paramount.
If this role sparks your interest, even if you don't meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply for what could be a transformative career opportunity.
This is a remote opportunity, and we welcome applicants from the UK.
Senior Backend Engineer - Grafana k6
Your Role:
Join the team behind Grafana k6, Grafana Cloud k6, and Grafana Cloud Synthetics, tools used by teams worldwide to ensure robust, high-performing systems. This role is part of the synthetics squad, responsible for developing and maintaining our monitoring product—a multi-tenant distributed system built in Go and deployed on Kubernetes across major cloud service providers (GCP, Azure, AWS), executing billions of synthetic tests monthly.
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Grafana, you will possess extensive experience across diverse areas. You will plan, coordinate, and execute substantial tasks that span multiple systems, while actively mentoring team members and adeptly troubleshooting technological and product-related challenges.

