Jobs at Grafana Labs

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 21,800 stars on GitHub and has an active community of users and contributors.
• You will have a lot of influence on the project road map 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, and 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

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• Our ideal candidate would be an experienced open source community leader who understands the social landscape and parts of the technical landscape. We're looking for someone who is excited about teaching, coaching, and growing people - and who can help motivate the wider community to contribute and give back.
• If this sounds like you and you stay on top of what's happening in Grafana, observability, telemetry, or distributed systems, we should talk. We strongly encourage under-represented groups to apply.
• As a Community manager, you are a community member first, and will help connect developers, SREs, administrators who are building things with Grafana. That starts with things like helping run a champions program, improve our forums, help with swag and other facets, but the big picture is about owning the process of how we get more people involved and contributing. You will participate in events, conferences, meetups, and possibly open source governance as well. A big plus for us is if you already participate meaningfully (in any capacity) in open source communities such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, CNCF, or OpenTelemetry.
• We work in the R&D part of the organization, alongside product managers and engineers. The aim of the role is to grow and foster communities of users building cool stuff.
• Reporting to the Director of Developer Advocacy, you'll work with an all-remote team of advocates and community support engineers. This blog post describes a lot of what you will be working on..

The Types Of Things You Will Be Doing Include

• Manage and grow the Grafana Champions program of our best & most valued contributors
• Act as an ally and colleague of external practitioners who are getting started
• Build relationships with people across the community, to support & inspire
• Own the continuous improvement of the forums where Grafana community connection takes place (slack, discourse, and others).