Software Engineer - k6 Cloud Data at Grafana Labs

The Reliability Testing department of Grafana consists of Grafana Cloud k6 (performance testing) and Grafana Synthetic Monitoring, both of which are based on the k6 OSS tool. We are pushing the state-of-the-art in our industry, creating open-source tools focused on a great developer experience. k6 was built to reinvent the engineering principles around performance testing with a mission to empower engineers to build highly resilient and scalable systems.

What will you be working on?

You will be a part of one of the teams that focuses on Grafana Cloud k6, our commercial performance testing product built around the OSS k6, targeted at users wanting to run performance tests at scale. Our SaaS offering allows customers to load test their systems by running distributed tests from 20+ regions worldwide, using hundreds of thousands of virtual users sending millions of requests per second. We ingest huge volumes of data generated by k6, which can be used to view, correlate, and analyze metrics from each test.

k6 is a product used by other engineers, and as such, we are looking for people enthusiastic about building high-quality tools they would want to use themselves. Due to our small teams and fast development pace, you will have a substantial and immediate impact on how the end product is architected, 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.

The team youll work with (k6 Cloud Data team) is developing the backbone of our cloud system and focuses on data processing and efficient storage of the vast amount of data generated by a test distributed in the cloud environment. It is also owning customer data and other integrations with Grafana cloud.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Pair up with a seasoned mentor to help you develop your skills

• Work with your team to develop, architect and operate large-scale distributed systems and storage solutions

• Participate in design reviews that shape the future of Grafana Cloud k6

• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices

• Improve application reliability and observability

• Collaborate with other teams on delivering cross-functional features to the cloud product

• Participate in the On-Call rotation and ensure the high availability of our product

• Contribute to the documentation and/or educational content

Requirements:

• Good at DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Good familiarity with Python (Go is a plus)

• Good interpersonal skills

• Good technical communication skills

• Familiarity with modern software engineering processes and practices

• Enthusiasm about large-scale distributed systems

• Enthusiasm about test automation (performance tests, functional tests, etc.)

• Pair up with a seasoned mentor

Not required, but great if you also have

• Experience working with Go, and/or JavaScript

• Experience with AWS, Grafana stack

• Experience building event-driven systems

• Experience working with time-series data

• Affinity for developing testing frameworks