Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute your expertise in observability and software engineering to enhance our infrastructure monitoring capabilities within Grafana Cloud. This remote position, open to Canadian applicants in the MST/CST/EST time zones, offers a dedicated career path without requiring management roles for advancement. You will design and implement scalable integrations, create middleware components, and collaborate with various teams to deliver a holistic product experience. The role involves participation in on-call rotations and contributing to open-source projects. Grafana Labs values ownership, technical leadership, and a passion for observability.

Requirements

• Strong 8+ years of experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but do not require candidates with Go experience. Long term experience in any major language (Python, .NET, Java, Rust, etc) with a willingness to learn Go is acceptable
• Demonstrated experience working with and monitoring Kubernetes in a production environment
• 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

• 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, in addition to design and docs, 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 Sales, 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
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)/ Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• In-depth knowledge cloud platform internals
• Strong understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)