Remote Principal Software Engineer - O11y, Asserts (Remote, Germany)

Description:

• The Asserts.ai team, part of Grafana Labs, is expanding within the Observability group, focusing on low-latency microservices built in Java and utilizing Graph DB.
• The backend team is responsible for providing automated Root Cause Insights by querying Grafana Cloud Metrics, Traces, and Logs databases, integrating with Grafana platform components like Dashboarding and Alerting.
• The services are multi-tenant, highly available, and designed to process and store data in Graph and Time Series DB.
• The company is seeking a principal level engineer with a strong distributed systems background to lead the Asserts backend initiatives.
• Responsibilities include driving technical and business strategy, influencing the product roadmap, and participating in system design and feature delivery.
• The role involves building and operating critical systems, ensuring their reliability, performance, and availability, and participating in on-call rotations.
• Mentoring and supporting team members is a key aspect of the position, along with becoming a subject matter expert in observability products and systems.

Requirements:

• Candidates must be motivated self-starters with a bias towards action and a customer-focused mindset.
• Experience in delivering projects from requirements gathering to product shipping in a self-driven manner is required.
• Proficiency in building and deploying SaaS software on cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure is necessary.
• Strong experience in Java programming and deploying Java-based microservices is essential.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes is required.
• Candidates should have experience operating production services and participating in on-call rotations.
• Active mentoring of team members and sharing knowledge through blog posts or tech talks is expected.
• A curiosity for learning new programming languages and frameworks is important.

Benefits:

• The position offers a generous vacation policy of 30 days per annum, in addition to national holidays in the country of residence.
• Grafana operates in over 32 countries, providing global benefits that can be discussed during the interview process.
• In Germany, the base compensation range for this role is EUR 117,420 - EUR 140,904, with actual compensation varying based on level, experience, and skillset.
• Benefits include equity, potential bonuses, and additional perks as outlined on the company's careers page.