Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
Grafana Cloud k6
CA$186.4-223.6k
Offers equity
The open and composable observability platform
Be an early applicant
The open and composable observability platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$186.4-223.6k
Offers 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 may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity
- Strong experience with DevOps/SRE practices, including operating and evolving production systems at scale
- Strong programming background in a modern language (Python and Go are primary, but prior experience is not required)
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Strong understanding of reliability engineering concepts (e.g. incident management, observability, and failure modes)
- Experience with test automation, including performance and functional testing
- Ability to influence engineering practices through clear technical communication, reviews, and collaboration
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across teams
- Familiarity with modern software engineering processes and delivery practices
- Self-driven and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy and ambiguity
Desirable
- Experience with containerized and cloud-native systems (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
- Familiarity with observability tooling and platforms (e.g. the Grafana stack)
- Experience working with Python, Go, JavaScript and/or Jsonnet
- Experience building or operating event-driven or asynchronous systems
- Experience defining or applying SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, or reliability metrics
- Interest in, or experience with, building testing frameworks or developer tooling
What the job involves
- Your role will focus on establishing and scaling a cross-team culture of engineering excellence by setting standards and guiding adoption of strong DevOps/SRE practices that improve reliability, availability, and operational ownership
- As this foundation matures, the role is expected to expand into broader application and product development leadership, contributing architectural and technical depth beyond operational excellence
- Build and scale a strong culture of operational excellence by defining standards and coaching teams to own reliability and availability
- Drive mature DevOps/SRE practices, including incident response and PIRs, on-call readiness, runbooks, alerting, observability, and release/change management
- Establish reliability frameworks such as SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and use them to guide prioritization and engineering trade-offs
- Provide visibility into system health through clear operational metrics and reliability reporting
- Guide teams in the design, development, evolution, and operation of large-scale, distributed cloud systems
- Influence product and system direction through design reviews, architectural discussions, and cross-team collaboration
- Share knowledge through clear, high-quality documentation and technical communication—internally and, where appropriate, externally—to help teams build and operate systems more effectively
- As the reliability foundation matures, grow into broader application and product development leadership, contributing architectural and technical depth beyond operations
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 collaborates closely with its clients to create customizable observability platforms, striving to enhance efficiency in observability. Its offerings include cloud-based data structures, dashboards, API plugins, and collaboration tools. Currently, Grafana boasts over 25M users globally, with a customer base exceeding 5,000, 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 observability solutions on a monthly subscription basis. The company's ongoing strategy revolves around continually improving Grafana to meet users' demands, enhancing functionality with each iteration, and fostering 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
(Co-Founder & CEO)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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