Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

• 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
• We are looking for engineers that are passionate about communicating with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team!
• Strong 5+ years of experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but do not require candidates with Go experience. Long term experience in any major language (Python, .NET, Java, Rust, etc) with a willingness to learn Go is acceptable
• In-depth knowledge of at least one major cloud provider, including core services, APIs, identity and access models, networking, and operational patterns
• Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience driving projects from ideation to production
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management

Desirable

• Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana
• It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack
• The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it
• In this role, you will be part of the team that designs, builds, and scales our Cloud Observability product suite, providing customers with the ability to collect, visualize, analyze, and understand metrics and logs data from hundreds of cloud provider services
• This includes the dashboards, alerts, documentation, and infrastructure while working closely with other teams to ensure seamless experiences
• We also strive to incorporate OSS contributions in our work by contributing to projects such as Alloy, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Beyla
• The Observability department provides a core building block for customers using Grafana Cloud
• 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 unique perspective to the software
• Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities
• You will bring your passion for observability and software engineering expertise to help us take our infrastructure monitoring capabilities within Grafana Cloud to the next level. This will include working with our Kubernetes monitoring and Cloud Provider observability solutions
• Design and implement high-quality, scalable integrations for various infrastructure components, databases, and applications
• Create middleware components, SDKs, and libraries that simplify development and maintenance of observability solutions
• When necessary, represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events
• Work with product teams, in addition to design and docs, to develop features that align with wider product strategy and customer needs
• Support the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions
• Work with other departments including Sales, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience
• Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope