Senior Backend Engineer, Mimir (Remote – UK)

Grafana Labs; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 91,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

A global open-source technology company is looking for a Mimir Engineer to contribute to the Grafana Mimir OSS project. Candidates should have solid programming experience, familiarity with DevOps, and skills in software development within cloud-based environments. The role emphasizes collaboration in a remote setting and the opportunity to influence product roadmaps. Competitive compensation and a remote-first culture are offered, ideal for those passionate about innovation and open-source solutions.

Benefits

Remote work flexibility

30 days annual leave

Transparent communication

Career growth opportunities

In-person onboarding

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Collaborate 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.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning their reliability, performance, and availability.
• Participate in follow‑the‑sun on‑call rotations.
• Support team members and participate in design discussions.

Job description

A global open-source technology company is looking for a Mimir Engineer to contribute to the Grafana Mimir OSS project. Candidates should have solid programming experience, familiarity with DevOps, and skills in software development within cloud-based environments. The role emphasizes collaboration in a remote setting and the opportunity to influence product roadmaps. Competitive compensation and a remote-first culture are offered, ideal for those passionate about innovation and open-source solutions.