Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
OpenTelemetry
$154-193k
+ Equity
Open & composable observability platform
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Open & composable observability platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$154-193k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unite data, no matter where it lives, and empower its users to analyze, take action, and make smart decisions.
Role
Who you are
- You have strong experience with at least one systems or backend programming language
- Experience with Golang, Rust or Java is strongly preferred
- Experience with C, C++, or similar languages can also translate well
- You have experience with, or a strong desire to contribute to, open source communities
- You have experience working with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies from a developer’s perspective
- You write software that is reliable, maintainable, and understandable to other engineers
- You are comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous technical problems and driving them from discovery through delivery
- You have experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or systems engineering
- You communicate clearly in writing and in conversation, especially in remote and async environments
Desirable
- Existing involvement in the OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or the broader observability ecosystem
- Eperience with Malbolge and/or cursed-lang
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects
- Experience setting technical direction for a project or team
- Experience with microservices, telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, metrics, logs, or production debugging
- Experience operating production services, participating in on-call, or improving reliability for customer-facing systems
- Experience creating technical content such as documentation, examples, tutorials, or blog posts
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help shape Grafana Labs’ work in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem
- In this role, you will contribute to strategic OpenTelemetry projects, work with upstream open source communities, and help define how Grafana Labs supports and advances OpenTelemetry adoption. You will combine strong software engineering skills with technical leadership, community collaboration, and a customer-focused approach to observability
- This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys building production-quality software, working across organizational boundaries, and helping others adopt best practices around instrumentation, telemetry pipelines, semantic conventions, and observability architecture
- Contribute to OpenTelemetry components and related open source projects across the ecosystem
- Help define and execute Grafana Labs’ technical strategy for OpenTelemetry
- Collaborate with upstream maintainers, contributors, and users in open source communities
- Serve as an OpenTelemetry expert within Grafana Labs and externally, promoting best practices around instrumentation, semantic conventions, and telemetry collection
- Build clean, robust, performant software that can be maintained and extended by others
- Partner with Product, Support, GTM, and other engineering teams to connect customer needs with technical direction
- Mentor engineers across levels through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and open collaboration
- Write documentation, examples, blog posts, or other technical materials that help users and internal teams understand OpenTelemetry
Our take
Observability plays a crucial role in software development, where dashboards are pivotal for monitoring the health of IT infrastructure across an organization. However, for developers, the frustration of spending unnecessary time navigating between different dashboards to find the latest information detracts from valuable programming time.
Grafana creates customizable observability platforms for its clients, to enhance the efficiency of this process. Its offerings include cloud-based data structures, dashboards, API plugins, and collaboration tools. The company boasts over 25 million users globally, with a customer base exceeding 5,000 and including prominent names like Bloomberg, PJ Morgan Chase, eBay, PayPal and Sony.
While Grafana provides free plans with a simplified tool package, the Grafana Enterprise Stack offers customized solutions on a monthly subscription. The company's continues to improve to meet the evolving needs of its users, enhancing functionality with each iteration. It also fosters community engagement by enabling users to share their Grafana dashboards with the broader open-source community.
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Insights
49% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2024
$270m
SERIES D
Apr 2022
$240m
SERIES D
Total funding: $805.2m
Company benefits
- Vacation: Balance is key. Our team enjoys 30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. We also take a breather on a number of Grafana Shutdown Days each year
- Healthcare: We’re proud to provide health coverage or stipends for our colleagues in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, and India
- Retirement planning: There’s no time like the present to start saving for your future. We make employer contributions into the pension pots of our team members in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany
- Professional development: On top of a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend, Grafanistas have thousands of on-demand courses at their fingertips to help them grow professionally. Want to attend a conference or training? Go ahead. Just pass on what you learned
- Work location: Vast majority of our roles are fully remote, focused on hiring the best talent and allowing you to perform from the comfort of your home. If you fancy a change of scene, we’ll also reimburse you up to $175 a month for a personal co-working space
- Choice of tech: There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to the tech required to do your job. Choose the laptop and accessories you need when you join us, and we’ll refresh them every three years
- Mindfulness: When you join the team, you can sign up for a complimentary subscription to Headspace to take advantage of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation. Our wellbeing resource group also organize sessions run by fellow Grafanistas or external trainers
- Paid parental leave: Grafana offers paid parental leave to all eligible new parents. This offers Grafanistas time to bond with and care for their children in the first year after birth or adoption
- Global Employee Assistance Program: We offer all team members a 100% confidential support service with 24/7 365 access to professionally qualified counsellors and specialists
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Raj Dutt
(CEO & Co-Founder)Currently a Board Member at NSONE. Previously founded Voxel where they served as the CEO for 12 years. They also served as the Senior Vice President of Technology at Internap Network Services.
Torkel Ödegaard
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Mälardalen University with a Master's in Computer Science. Founder of Coding Instinct. Previously worked as a Consultant at H&M, Avega, and Ebay.
Anthony Wood
(Co-Founder)Previously worked at Visa and Voxel as a Senior Systems Engineer. They also have Systems Engineering experience at PalVision and iiNet.
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