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

Description:

• The Asserts.ai team is part of Grafana Labs and is growing within the Observability group.
• The backend team is responsible for building and operating low-latency microservices using Java and 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 role involves driving technical and business strategy in the Observability department and influencing the product roadmap.
• Responsibilities include system design, creating design documents, collaborating across teams, and delivering new features.
• The engineer will build and operate critical systems, ensuring their reliability, performance, and availability.
• Participation in on-call rotations is required, along with mentoring and supporting team members.
• The position requires becoming 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 requirements gathering to product shipping 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 deploying Java-based microservices is necessary.
• Experience with Kubernetes is required.
• Candidates must have operated production services and participated 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 the entire team can enjoy.
• In Sweden, the base compensation range for this role is SEK 949,351 - SEK 1,139,221, with actual compensation varying based on experience and skillset.
• Benefits include equity, bonuses (if applicable), and additional benefits as discussed during the interview process.