Grafana Labs supports organizations’ monitoring, visualization and observability goals. 950,000+ active installations
Staff Software Engineer – Grafana Cloud Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring
Location
United States
Posted
16 days ago
Salary
$175.0K - $210.0K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- Strong 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language - any major language (Python, .NET, Java, Go, Rust, etc) is acceptable
- Demonstrated working experience in operating high-scale production systems running on Kubernetes and monitoring it, including on-call participation, incident response, and postmortem practices
- Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana)
- Strong understanding of time-series data, metrics cardinality challenges, and cost/performance tradeoffs/optimizations in observability systems
- Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role - setting technical direction, leading project teams, and influencing architectural decisions beyond your immediate team
- Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts including scalability, consistency, high availability, and failure modes in large-scale systems
- Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software
- Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Strong mentoring and leadership skills.
Benefits
- 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
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