Software Engineer - Platform Monitoring

Summary

Join Grafana Labs' Platform Monitoring Squad as a remote Software Engineer in Canada (excluding Quebec residents). This role focuses on managing cloud resources and observability, including cost management, dashboard creation, and improving system reliability. You will work with technologies like Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Crossplane, contributing to critical dashboards and tooling for Grafana, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo. The ideal candidate possesses experience in platform engineering, observability systems, and working with internal and external users. Compensation includes a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Experience working in a Platform group delivering services to internal users and customers
• Experience/interest in implementing, integrating, and maintaining observability systems and processes

Responsibilities

• Design, compare, and choose appropriate solutions for cloud service provider resource observability
• Create cost alerts
• Help with improving cloud-cost margins
• Improve the reliability of autoscaling tools
• Investigate CSP unallocated resources
• Manage business-critical dashboards

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform
• CLI tooling experience
• Familiarity with Kubernetes administration
• Worked on the correlation of application performance to an application technology stack
• Experience with Microservices
• Experience with Telemetry querying
• Experience with Visualization and reporting
• Experience with OpenTelemetry
• Experience with Go

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)