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Senior Software Engineer — Grafana k6 OSS (Remote, Argentina)

  • Grafana Labs
  • LATAM (Remote)
  • 18 Sep, 2023

Job Description

About Grafana k6

At Grafana k6, we build next-generation performance testing tools for developers and DevOps engineers. We are pushing forward the state-of-the-art in our industry, creating open-source tools that have great developer experience and enable engineers to build reliable systems. k6 is an open-source tool that we built to reinvent the engineering principles around performance testing and enable engineers to build systems that scale.

About the role

You will be one of five developers and maintainers of k6, a modern open-source tool for performance testing, written in Go. k6 was released publicly in early 2017 and has already received over 21,100 stars on GitHub and has an active community of users and contributors.

You will have a lot of influence on the project roadmap and will work with a high degree of autonomy, building and maintaining the tool.

Your responsibilities will be to both write code, extend the functionality of k6, maintain the code base, interface with the user community (i.e. review patches :) and potentially evangelize the tool. 

Our main, long-term goal will be to create the best possible tool and to maximize our community  as many people as possible to use it.

You also will be involved with the k6 cloud integration, a SaaS service built on top of k6. Specifically, the parts of the cloud service written in Go, that orchestrates a distributed k6 test across 17 data centers around the world.

Due to our small teams and fast development pace, you will have a substantial and immediate impact on how the end product is architected, developed, and how the engineering team operates. Most importantly, you will work with competent colleagues and will be able to expand your knowledge and skills in different directions.

Required skills

  • We are looking for a person combining very strong programming skills with experience in contributing to open-source projects.
  • Have a strong programming background and experience developing applications in Go (or another language with high-concurrency/parallelism)
  • Understand internet protocols well, primarily IP, TCP, HTTP but also preferably HTTP/2, SPDY, WebSockets, QUIC, gRPC
  • Are familiar with modern development processes and practices. Preferably having recent experience developing large scale applications

It is great if you also

  • Have worked in open source projects, either as a heavy contributor or, even better, as maintainer for projects with multiple contributors
  • Have experience working with web performance, testing & optimization
  • Have experience working with network performance, testing & optimization
  • Have experience working with Python or JavaScript
  • Know about things like Docker, AWS, microservices architecture, Grafana/APM tools
 
 
About Grafana Labs: There are more than 950,000 active installations of Grafana around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps companies including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay manage their observability strategies with full-stack offerings that can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud, or self-managed with Grafana Enterprise Stack. The Grafana stack has grown to include four other open source projects, Grafana Loki (for logs), Grafana Tempo (for traces), Grafana Mimir (for metrics), and Grafana OnCall (for on-call management).
 
Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.
 
Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.
 
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About Grafana Labs

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