Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs, a remote-first open-source company, as a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in GoLang. The Grafana Backend Services squad focuses on delivering top-tier Grafana services to both on-premise and cloud customers. You will contribute to new features, review design documents, embrace the open-source culture, and actively influence the roadmap. Responsibilities include on-call rotations, mentoring team members, and collaborating across squads. This fully remote position is open to US and Canada-based candidates in the EST timezone. The role offers a competitive salary, RSUs, and a supportive, collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• Have solid experience with Go
• Good understanding of storage solutions with an emphasis on relational databases like MySQL, SQLite, and Postgres
• Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on
• Have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, and brainstorming ideas to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• Have experience with mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative but asynchronous environment
• Enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technical solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows
• Can take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve tight learning loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and then progress iteratively

Responsibilities

• Work with your team to deliver new functionality, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming features
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your career objectives
• 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
• Regularly sharing ideas and knowledge across a vast array of technical ideologies and mindsets
• Working closely with the other squads in the Grafana Division

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with open-source software and/or commercial open-source companies
• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, or Developer Efficiency work streams
• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn

Benefits

• In Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is 153 ,409 CAD - 184 ,475 CAD
• Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process
• All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success
• We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment
• Remote-First, Global Culture – Work from anywhere with collaboration at the heart of everything we do
• 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