Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of our Cloud Observability stack. This remote-first role, open to applicants in the Canadian Eastern and Atlantic time zones, involves building and scaling infrastructure observability features within Grafana Cloud. You will design and implement high-quality integrations, create middleware components, and collaborate with various teams to deliver a seamless product experience. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will leverage your extensive experience to mentor team members, lead projects, and contribute to the technical direction of the team. Grafana Labs offers a dedicated career path for individual contributors and embraces an open-source culture.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software development, with strong proficiency in Golang
• Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in a self-driven manner
• Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, setting technical direction and leading project teams
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management

Responsibilities

• Bring your software engineering expertise to develop and maintain our portfolio of opinionated observability apps such as our Cloud Provider Observability solution, working to develop, maintain and scale our infrastructure observability features in Grafana Cloud
• Design and implement high-quality, scalable integrations for various infrastructure components, databases, and applications
• Create middleware components, SDKs, and libraries that simplify development and maintenance of observability solutions
• When necessary, represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events
• Work with product teams to develop features that align with wider product strategy and customer needs
• Support the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions
• Work with other departments including GTM, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience
• Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects, with evidence of successful pull requests and community collaboration
• Experience deploying and maintaining workloads running on Kubernetes
• In-depth knowledge cloud platform internals
• Strong understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts