Grafana Labs is hiring a
Principal Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Principal Engineer in the Observability department of Grafana Labs. The role involves driving technical strategy, influencing product roadmap, creating design documents, delivering new features, operating critical systems, mentoring team members, and becoming a subject matter expert for observability products and systems.

Requirements

• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You have experience delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• You have experience in building and deploying SaaS software on any one of the cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure
• You have strong experience in Java programming and have built and deployed Java based microservices
• You have experience with Kubernetes
• You have been responsible for operating production services and organizing/participating in on-call rotations
• You actively mentor other team members, identifying areas for focus and improvement
• You like to share your knowledge by creating blog posts, giving tech talks at meetups and conferences

Responsibilities

• Drive technical and business strategy in the Observability department
• Influence the product roadmap
• Drive innovations from ideation to customer adoption
• Create design documents and collaborate within and across teams
• Deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Build and operate critical systems. Own their reliability, performance, and availability
• Participate in on-call rotations
• Mentor and support other team members

Preferred Qualifications

Been a power user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)

Benefits

Generous vacation policy of 30 days per annum with national holidays in your country of residence on top