Backend Engineer - O11y, Asserts (Remote, EMEA)

This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in Spain only.

Backend Engineer - O11y, Asserts (EMEA, Remote)

What do we do?

Asserts.ai team joined Grafana Labs as part of an acquisition and is now growing inside the larger Observability group. The backend team is responsible for building and operating a set of low-latency microservices built in Java and databases like Graph DB. The services provide automated Root Cause Insights by actively querying the Grafana Cloud Metrics, Traces, and Logs databases and integrating with the Grafana platform components like Dashboarding and Alerting. The Asserts services are multi-tenant, highly available and process and store data in Graph and Time Series DB. We will soon be rolling it out to thousands of self-service customers, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and do it all more efficiently.

We're looking for a backend engineer who is passionate about programming.   

As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a unique perspective to the software. 

What will you be doing?

• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Create design documents, collaborate within and across teams. 
• Build and operate critical systems. Own their reliability, performance, and availability.
• Participate in on-call rotations. 
• Build expertise of Grafana’s observability products and systems.
• Gain a deeper understanding of our cloud product, our customers and get to know the codebase of a large distributed system.

What are we looking for in you?

• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action.
• You have strong experience in Java programming and have built and deployed Java based microservices.
• You have experience with Kubernetes.
• You have some experience delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way.
• You have some experience in building and deploying SaaS software on any one of the cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure. 
• You’re curious and enjoy learning new programming languages and frameworks, setting up examples, and figuring out how things work.

Nice to haves:

• You have been responsible for operating production services and organizing/participating in on-call rotations.
• You like to share your knowledge by creating blog posts, giving tech talks at meetups and conferences.

In Spain, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 61,533 - EUR 73,839.  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.