Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

• We are looking for Senior Software Engineers who are passionate about working with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team!
• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key
• For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We operate by consensus. You can contribute to a discussion, disagree constructively, and commit to the team’s decision. You are able to communicate design decisions clearly in written and spoken English
• Ability to reason about data-intensive systems (ingestion, storage, querying, cost trade-offs)
• You are comfortable owning features in ambiguous problem spaces. We are a small team, working remotely, on a product that will be used by engineers all over the world – the ability to work on your own is crucial
• You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a user-centered approach. You easily build an understanding of the users’ context and goals which will help you build the right solution with the maximum value
• You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and who care deeply about their workflows. You value code maintainability, readability & automation
• You use AI tools as a natural part of your engineering workflow - whether for accelerating exploration, code review, or reasoning through design tradeoffs - and you're thoughtful about where they help and where they don't

Desirable

• The Session Replay squad is building a new Grafana Cloud product that helps our customers to understand what users actually experienced when something goes wrong
• Session Replay connects frontend signals (errors, performance, synthetic checks) to concrete session-level evidence, enabling faster and more confident investigation of production issues
• This team works at the intersection of:
• Frontend observability,
• Backend data processing and storage at scale,
• Debugging workflows across products,
• Privacy and access control,
• Performance and cost constraints at scale
• Session Replay is still early, which means you’ll help shape both what we build and how it fits into Grafana Cloud
• A key part of our next phase is evolving the backend architecture of capturing sessions, including a migration toward columnar/analytical solution as a primary storage and query engine for high-volume session data
• As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software
• Our stack is Golang, Typescript and React, but we build tools for people using many other stacks
• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will operate as a technical leader and systems thinker, driving both product direction and architectural evolution, specifically, you will:
• Own end-to-end technical direction for Session Replay, spanning frontend, backend, and data systems
• Drive the evolution of our backend architecture, including:
• Designing systems around columnar/analytical data storage for large-scale session data
• Defining data models, ingestion pipelines, and query patterns
• Lead the design of investigation workflows, connecting replay with logs, metrics, traces and other telemetry across Grafana Cloud
• Make high-leverage architectural decisions that impact multiple teams and products
• Partner with teams across Grafana (Frontend Observability, Synthetic Monitoring, Core Grafana) to build cohesive cross-product experiences
• Engage directly with customers - joining calls, gathering structured feedback, and helping customers instrument and adopt Session Replay successfully
• Improve engineering standards, patterns, and operational practices within the team
• Mentor engineers and help grow technical leadership within the team
• Technologies you'll work with:
• Go (backend services and APIs)
• Columnar/Analytical data storage (core data storage and querying)
• Object storage (S3, GCS, Azure Blob Storage) and MySQL
• TypeScript / React (user-facing workflows)
• Grafana ecosystem (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, etc.)
• We invest heavily in developer productivity
• You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction
• We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always with strong code review and quality standards
• You'll also have access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google