Senior Backend Engineer - Mimir | UK | RemoteGrafana Labs • London, England, United Kingdom
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Senior Backend Engineer - Mimir | UK | Remote
Grafana Labs
- London, England, United Kingdom
- London, England, United Kingdom
Über
Grafana Labs is a remote‑first, open‑source powerhouse. With more than 20M users worldwide, Grafana is used to monitor everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps, and its dashboards have been seen at NASA launches, Minecraft HQs, Wimbledon, and the Tour de France. The company helps over 3,000 companies – including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay – manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self‑managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack. Both options feature scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo).
We’re scaling fast while staying true to our open‑source legacy, global collaborative culture, and passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation‑driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love for you to raise your hand for a truly career‑defining opportunity.
The Opportunity As a Mimir Engineer you’ll join one of two sub‑squads – Ingest or Query – that together maintain the open‑source Grafana Mimir OSS project and operate Grafana Cloud Metrics across three major cloud providers. This role offers the opportunity to work on large‑scale, high‑performance distributed systems where efficiency, resilience, and reliability are essential to keeping our metrics offerings competitive and smooth at massive volumes.
Mimir engineers work across a variety of streams. You’ll typically collaborate with another engineer on a larger project while also driving performance and reliability improvements identified from operating the system in production. In this role, you’ll write and review PRs and design documents, help guide automated release rollouts, and participate in the on‑call rotation for the systems you own. This is a chance to directly shape, optimise, and scale one of the industry’s most advanced metrics platforms.
What You’ll Be Doing
Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and your own career objectives
Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
Drive projects from initial idea all the way to operation once they are in the hands of customers
Embrace our open‑source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
Be a part of your team’s follow‑the‑sun on‑call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
Support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and by getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system
What Makes You a Great Fit
Pragmatism: You can take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops, delivering MVPs and iterating based on data and feedback
Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a squad. Good communication skills are a must in a fully remote setup
Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, but Python, C, C++, Rust or similar also acceptable)
Some experience delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self‑driven way
Some experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or in systems engineering
Some experience being on‑call and following a DevOps model
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
Familiarity with observability systems, knowing when to use metrics, logs, and traces to debug a problem
Bonus Points For
Experience working with Kubernetes
Experience with queue systems (e.g., the Kafka protocol)
Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on‑call for your team at a previous employer or with hobby/homelab projects)
Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
Familiarity with infrastructure as code
Compensation & Rewards In the UK, the base compensation range for this role is GBP 91,000 – GBP 114,000. 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.
*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.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs
100% Remote, Global Culture
– As a remote‑only company we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
Scaling Organization
– Tackle meaningful work in a high‑growth, ever‑evolving environment.
Transparent Communication
– Expect open decision‑making and regular company‑wide updates.
Innovation‑Driven
– Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
Open Source Roots
– Built on community‑driven values that shape how we work.
Empowered Teams
– High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
Career Growth Pathways
– Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
Approachable Leadership
– Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
Passionate People
– Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
In‑Person onboarding
– We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
Balance is Key
– We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. Three days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organisation as we grow.
*Grafana Labs may utilise AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
*For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our privacy policy.
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