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

Description:

• This is a full-time remote position, and candidates must be located in Spain.
• The Asserts.ai team, part of Grafana Labs, is responsible for building and operating low-latency microservices in Java and databases like Graph DB.
• The services provide automated Root Cause Insights by querying Grafana Cloud Metrics, Traces, and Logs databases.
• The Asserts services are multi-tenant, highly available, and process/store data in Graph and Time Series DB.
• The team is looking for a principal level engineer with a strong distributed systems background to lead backend initiatives.
• Responsibilities include driving technical and business strategy, influencing the product roadmap, and driving system design.
• The engineer will work with the team to deliver new features and improve them based on results.
• The role involves building and operating critical systems, owning their reliability, performance, and availability, and participating in on-call rotations.
• Mentoring and supporting team members is also a key responsibility.
• The engineer will strive to become a subject matter expert for observability products and systems.

Requirements:

• Candidates must be motivated self-starters with a bias towards action.
• A customer-focused mindset is essential, with a passion for creating intuitive products.
• Experience in delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping products is required.
• Candidates should have experience in building and deploying SaaS software on cloud providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong experience in Java programming and building/deploying Java-based microservices is necessary.
• Experience with Kubernetes is required.
• Candidates must have been responsible for 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.
• Nice to have: Experience as a power user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles.

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, focusing on global benefits for the team.
• In Spain, the base compensation range for this role is EUR 100,556 - EUR 120,667, with actual compensation varying based on level, experience, and skillset.
• Benefits include equity, bonuses (if applicable), and other benefits as detailed on the Grafana careers page.