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 work on various components, including the Grafana Backend API and CLI tool, and contribute to the orchestration infrastructure. This role involves delivering new features, reviewing design documents, contributing to open-source projects, influencing the roadmap, and participating in on-call rotations. You will also mentor junior engineers and collaborate with other squads. The position is fully remote for US or Canada-based candidates in the EST timezone. Compensation includes a competitive salary and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

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 the United States, the Base compensation range for this role is $ 148,505 - $ 178,206 . 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
• Remote-First, Global Culture – Work from anywhere with collaboration at the heart of everything we do
• 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