arturw8i
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Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Grafana Labs | Remote-first (and-only) | Senior / Staff Software Engineer | Full-time
I am looking for someone with a lot of experience with SaaS platforms at scale. We are turning Grafana into a high-scale, multitenant observability application platform that is easy to build upon.
To get there, we need to refactor a significant portion of Grafana to make it simpler and more standardized. Grafana is used by countless OSS and Cloud users across different platforms, so planning and rolling out changes safely to avoid service disruptions is crucial; I am looking for someone excited about this sort of work.
For more details, look at the JD and at: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/contribute/arch...
Send a CV or GitHub at https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wierzbicki/ or apply via the Careers page:
- USA: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5541738004
- Canada: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5541741004
For this role in particular, we are hiring only in Canada and in the US - but take a look at our careers page as we have many other roles open
Comment · 1 year ago
Grafana Labs | Remote-first (and-only) | Senior / Staff Software Engineer | Full-time
I am looking for someone with a lot of experience with SaaS platforms at scale. We are turning Grafana into a proper observability app platform where OSS and proprietary apps can directly tap into dashboards, alerts, incidents, and telemetry and deliver even more integrated experiences.
To get there, we need to refactor a big part of Grafana so that it’s simpler and standardized. Grafana is used by countless OSS and Cloud users across different platforms, so planning and rolling out changes safely to avoid service disruptions is crucial; I am looking for someone who is excited about this sort of work.
For more details, look at the JD and at: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/contribute/arch...
We are hiring only in: USA, Canada, Germany, UK, Spain, Sweden. Send a CV or GitHub at https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wierzbicki/ or apply via the Careers page:
- USA: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5541738004 - Canada: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5541741004 - UK: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5525639004 - Spain: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5525638004 - Sweden: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5525640004 - Germany: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5525641004
Comment · 2 years ago
im curious - what are some other examples?
Comment · 5 years ago
I think it's getting better - a number of countries worldwide (such as Portugal or UAE) are making it easier and easier for people to work remotely as "contractors". While not perfect, it's definitely a good solution for highly skilled workers who have a strong negotiating position and can ask for all the benefits their country's labour law would otherwise assure.
Comment · 5 years ago
I have used Retool to create a (well-received) PoC of an internal-facing admin app. I was pretty impressed, even though it had some rough edges.
Setting up UIs was relatively painless thanks to many out-of-the-box integrations, and it was surprisingly easy to implement auth/error handling/component dependencies.
The thing I liked the most is that it's not really a "no code" - you need to be technical to build good apps in this tool. However, that's where the power comes from - it simplifies the mundane development tasks and lets you focus on something more high level.
I wish the team would make it easier to consume your own, custom API however.
Comment · 5 years ago
Do you mind sharing the good source?
Comment · 5 years ago
I like the C4 model because it forces me to think about the right level of abstraction for the diagram's audience. It also has very few core building blocks and thus is very easy to learn. I just wish the tooling around it was better :)
Comment · 5 years ago
> A lot of people who I knew as sympathetic and calm before they took management roles turned into something I could code in one minute: namely a program that asks "how much is this going to take?" and if your answer is above N hours/days then they say "no, we're not doing it". And that's not because they are stupid or suddenly non-sympathetic. It's because their bosses optimize for those metrics and measure them (and their salary, and their bonuses, and even their vacation days) by the same metrics.
I had this exact same thought recently when reflecting on my behavior in my new role as a "technical product owner". All of it was reflexive, as if I suddenly forgot all of the software engineering knowledge I accumulated over the years and became a deadline-driven cog.
I don't have a solution yet; I think it comes down to that I don't yet speak the same language that people I report to do, and thus I feel like I can't defend my position well enough. It comes with experience, I guess!
Comment · 5 years ago
Wouldn't that deposit requirement cause issues for high volume/low margin sellers?
Comment · 5 years ago
> Software architecture probably matters more than anything else. A shitty implementation of a good abstraction causes no net harm to the code base. A bad abstraction or missing layer causes everything to rot.
That's fair, but shouldn't we strive to make the best possible guesses in the absence of said theory and science?
Comment · 5 years ago
Use Revolut
Comment · 6 years ago
What's the practical implication of this fact?
Comment · 6 years ago
> I can imagine that the lack of such feedback not only results in slower learning. It might mean the non-apprentice programmer is unable to ever acquire an intuition for design no matter how many years of experience.
Yes! This is also worsened by the fact that changing jobs frequently is so common. This makes me appreciate my first job, where good design was a priority, so much more.
Comment · 6 years ago
I always use IntelliJ for code reviews, works great.
Im the hiring manager - some of the product highlights under the team's scope: - Grafana Assistant: the actually useful AI assistant that helps you do everything in Grafana; it works everywhere - even in OSS! - Investigations: background agents for investigating issues - Grafana Cloud CLI (GCX): CLI covering the entire surface of Grafana Cloud/OSS APIs; plays great with Claude Code/Codex/Cursor and the Assistant - AI Observability: helps you build useful agents and then lets you monitor, eval and improve how they behave - O11y Bench: compare agents' performance across a range of observability/SRE tasks
Our pace of development and innovation is RAPID - the AI Observability product went from being the winning hackathon project to public preview in 6 weeks. We are at the cutting edge here - we are experimenting with autonomous (but safe) SREs, an agentic platform, improving agentic dev experience with o11y insights, fine-tuned LLMs for specific tasks, and more.
We are looking for highly ambitious engineers who have a great sense of ownership, are all-in on agentic development, and have previously built and operated systems at scale. We are all full-stack and love initiative- we would love to talk with you _especially_ if you built something out in the open!
Canada JD: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/6100673004 US JD: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/6100672004
also, please free to get in touch with me directly via https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-wierzbicki/ or [email protected]