VictoriaMetrics careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

VictoriaMetrics builds high-performance open-source observability software: the VictoriaMetrics time series database and monitoring solution, the VictoriaLogs log management system, and VictoriaTraces, a newer open-source database for traces. The design goals are stated plainly: simplicity, reliability and efficiency, with predictable resource usage under real production workloads. The software runs everywhere from Raspberry Pi homelabs to multi-thousand-node Kubernetes clusters; as of October 2026 the company reports 1B+ downloads (over 1 billion Docker pulls plus 19M GitHub downloads), with Fortune 500 companies using the products as their core observability stack and users including Spotify, Wix, Grammarly, Roblox, CoreWeave and CERN.

The company was founded in 2018 by four engineers, grew out of Kyiv, Ukraine, and is now headquartered in the US (San Francisco, per its LinkedIn profile) with a fully remote, globally distributed team: the careers site counts 50+ coworkers and the company's October 2026 Hacker News hiring post says 60+. It is unusual among observability vendors in having taken no external investment: co-founder Roman Khavronenko told The Register in 2023 that the company prefers organic growth over venture pressure, and job postings describe it as profitable and sustainable with a long-term engineering mindset. Development is open-source first, happening publicly on GitHub with the community shaping the roadmap.

Aliaksandr Valialkin, Co-founder and CTO. Principal architect of VictoriaMetrics and creator of widely used high-performance Go libraries including fasthttp, fastcache and quicktemplate. Previously held CTO and architect roles at high-traffic adtech companies, where the limitations of existing time series databases led him to build VictoriaMetrics.

Roman Khavronenko, Co-founder. Distributed systems and monitoring engineer; worked at Cloudflare in London before VictoriaMetrics. The idea for the database took shape when he and Valialkin worked at the same company. A frequent KubeCon speaker on open source and observability.

Dzmitry (Dima) Lazerka, Co-founder. Machine learning expert who worked in the self-driving and space industries before co-founding VictoriaMetrics. Holds a Master of Science in Mathematics.

Artem Navoiev, Co-founder. Distributed systems and public cloud engineer focused on execution. Before VictoriaMetrics he worked on the VMware Solution for Microsoft in Azure and built the GCVE product at Google. Holds a master's degree in computer science.

The work is real systems engineering in the open: Go code on a high-performance time series, logs and traces stack, developed publicly on GitHub where users and contributors file the issues you fix. Postings emphasize keeping the codebase simple, understandable and maintainable, avoiding unnecessary complexity, and preserving backward compatibility, the same philosophy that made the database popular.

Because the company is bootstrapped and profitable, there is no investor-driven growth treadmill. The founders remain hands-on (a final interview round is with one of them), and the roles span the full business: as of October 2026 open positions cover engineering (VictoriaTraces), solution engineering, developer advocacy, product marketing, marketing management and finance, across North America, EMEA and APAC.

The company's motto is "by engineers, for engineers", and its three pillars (simplicity, reliability, efficiency) show up in how it builds: saying no to feature requests that would complicate the products, investing in documentation so users can self-serve, and supporting the community across GitHub, Slack and Telegram. Engineering postings ask for user focus and high ownership, with strong written and spoken English for a distributed team.

The team is fully remote and spread across 20+ countries (LinkedIn counts 21 as of October 2026). Four co-founders still run the company; team members speak at KubeCon and other community events, and customer-facing roles are expected to publish technical content such as blog posts, white papers and sample dashboards.

All roles are listed on the Teamtailor-hosted careers site at https://careers.victoriametrics.com/ (job list at https://careers.victoriametrics.com/jobs). As of October 2026 there are seven openings, all fully remote: a Software Engineer for the VictoriaTraces team (EMEA/APAC), a Senior Solution Engineer (North America), a Senior Developer Advocate (North America), a Marketing Manager (North America), a Director of Finance (North America), and Product Marketing Managers for the UK and for EMEA enterprise.

The engineering posting publishes the interview process: an introductory 30-minute video call with HR, a 1-hour technical interview with the engineering team, an optional second 1-hour interview with one of the founders, then an offer. That posting asks for 2+ years operating production systems, Go proficiency and observability domain understanding, with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Kubernetes and open-source contributions as pluses. Note that the EMEA/APAC engineering role is structured for independent contractors with their own registered business entity. Salary ranges are not published.