Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
Observability Knowledge Graph Backend
$175-210k
+ RSUs
The open and composable observability platform
Be an early applicant
The open and composable observability platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$175-210k
+ RSUs
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
- You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
- You have strong coding skills and operational experience; you were responsible for operating the software you have built
- You have worked on a SaaS platform and dealt with common distributed systems problems (e.g. scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA, …)
- You have excellent written and spoken communication skills. You’ll be working with your team mates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
- You are willing to work across teams. Your work has to be aligned with the needs of other squads and external stakeholders. You make your plans transparent, bring stakeholders on board, and are open to feedback and suggestions
- You are pragmatic; you prioritize progress over perfection; you can handle ambiguity
- We use Java on the backend and deploy on AWS/Azure/GCP Clouds using Kubernetes. You must have programming experience in Java and experience with Kubernetes and any one of the cloud platforms
- You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind
What the job involves
- The Grafana Observability (O11y) group builds end-to-end observability solutions that span Application, Infrastructure, Database, Browser and Mobile observability
- At the core of this experience is the Grafana Knowledge Graph—the platform that powers true full-stack observability across Grafana Cloud
- The Knowledge Graph is a suite of distributed, multi-tenant microservices that connects signals across the stack and delivers automated Root Cause Insights by actively analyzing Metrics, Traces, and Logs stored in Grafana Cloud
- These services process and store data across SQL, graph, and time-series databases and are designed for high availability and scale
- Used by thousands of self-service customers and trusted by some of the world’s largest organizations to monitor mission-critical infrastructure, the Knowledge Graph is a foundational platform at Grafana
- As adoption continues to grow, our focus is on continuously improving performance, increasing reliability, and scaling efficiently—without compromising on quality
- At Grafana, we value collective creativity and diverse perspectives
- Every team member is encouraged to bring ideas forward and help shape a platform that our users depend on every day
- We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work
- Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do
- Work with your team to build and roll out new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
- Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
- Take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively
- Maintain critical systems, and own their reliability, performance, and availability
- Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
- Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team
- Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
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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