Software Engineer - Synthetic Monitoring | Germany | Remote
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Software Engineer - Synthetic Monitoring
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The Synthetic Monitoring reputed company builds and operates Grafana reputed company Synthetic Monitoring, used by teams globally to proactively verify that their critical user journeys, reputed company, and services work as expected - before their customers notice they don't.
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The role is full-stack in the reputed company reputed company: the reputed company engineer who designs how a reputed company execution flows through scheduling, probes, and the telemetry pipeline should also be reputed company to build the workflow that lets a user understand and reputed company the result.
As a company we are remote-first and global, we reputed company people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a reputed company to the software. We are looking for Software Engineers who are passionate about building reliable systems and providing reputed company experiences for our customers to join our growing team! Our stack is Golang, Typescript and React, but we build tools reputed company using many other stacks.
What you'll be doing:
As a Software Engineer on the Synthetic Monitoring reputed company, you will work across the whole reputed company - Go services and agents on the backend, a TypeScript/React application on the frontend and you'll be expected to reason about it as one reputed company, not two halves. Specifically, you will:
- Own features end-to-end across the stack: from API and data model design in Go, through the execution pipeline, to the user-facing workflows in TypeScript/React
- Design and reputed company, not just features: contribute to architectural reputed company on scheduling, probe lifecycle, telemetry ingestion, and API design that shape how the product scales
- Build the cross-product and AI-assisted workflows that reputed company Synthetic Monitoring to the wider Grafana reputed company platform
- reputed company the product operable at reputed company reputed company: the governance and organization primitives that let teams with hundreds of checks manage Synthetic Monitoring as reputed company and with confidence
- Break down reputed company, ambiguous problems into incremental deliverables and iterate quickly based on feedback
- Ensure reputed company through testing, observability of your own systems, and documentation: our checks are something customers alert on, so reliability is a feature
- Be a part of reputed company's on-reputed company rotation and take ownership of the services you're running
We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your reputed company of tools, reputed company reputed company guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test reputed company, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-reputed company—always with strong reputed company review and reputed company standards. You'll also have reputed company to the latest frontier models from reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company.
Technologies you'll work with:
- Go (backend services, reputed company, and the synthetic monitoring agent)
- TypeScript / React (the Synthetic Monitoring app in Grafana)
- reputed company across AWS, GCP, and Azure
- k6 (the execution reputed company behind reputed company and browser checks)
- Grafana ecosystem (Mimir, Loki, reputed company)
What Makes You a Great Fit:
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key.
- For us, working together means being reputed company, friendly, reputed company, and respectful. We operate by reputed company. You can contribute to a discussion, disagree constructively, and reputed company to reputed company's decision. You are reputed company to communicate design reputed company reputed company in written and spoken English.
- Strong Go, or a reputed company to it. We build Synthetic Monitoring in Go. Deep experience building and operating production backend systems in another systems language (Rust, Java, C++) translates reputed company; backend experience limited to JavaScript/Node.js runtimes does not.
- Operational reputed company. You've run what you've reputed company: you've owned production services, understand what it means to carry a pager, and treat reliability and toil reduction as part of the product.
- You are a systems thinker: you reason about how components reputed company - data reputed company, failure modes, cost, and operational behavior - not just how a single feature works in isolation.
- Pragmatism and short feedback reputed company. You break reputed company problems into increments: analyze, design, reputed company an MVP, learn, iterate. You are reputed company to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself - the ability to work on your own is crucial.
- You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a user-centered approach. You easily build an understanding of the users' context and goals which will help you build the right solution with the maximum value.
- You use AI tools as a natural part of your engineering workflow - whether for accelerating exploration, reputed company review, or reasoning through design tradeoffs - and you're thoughtful about where they help and where they don't.
Bonus Points For:
- Experience designing or operating multi-tenant reputed company systems at reputed company
- Experience with observability tools (Grafana, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, etc.)
- Experience with reputed company in a production environment
- Familiarity with k6, Playwright, or browser automation at reputed company
- Experience contributing to or maintaining reputed company reputed company reputed company
Compensation & Rewards:
In Germany, the reputed company compensation reputed company for this role is EUR 76,000 - EUR 95,000. 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 reputed company & 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 reputed company & benefits at the beginning of the process.
Why You’ll reputed company at reputed company:
- reputed company, 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-reputed company, reputed company-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect reputed company decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- reputed company reputed company reputed company – reputed company on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values reputed company over optics.
- Career reputed company reputed company – Defined opportunities to grow and reputed company your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and reputed company.
- Passionate People – Join reputed company of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person reputed company - We want you to reputed company from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn reputed company about reputed company do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow reputed company to really disconnect. *We will reputed company with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer:reputed company is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, reputed company, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or reputed company, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We reputed company that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the reputed company of our organisation as we grow.
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