Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs' Asserts.ai team as a Senior or Staff Level Engineer and contribute to the development and operation of low-latency microservices. This full-time remote position, open to US and Canadian candidates, involves driving technical strategy, influencing product roadmaps, and building critical systems. You will collaborate with a team to deliver new features, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor other engineers. The ideal candidate possesses strong distributed systems experience, Java expertise, and a passion for creating intuitive products. Grafana Labs offers a remote-first culture, emphasizing work-life balance and professional development.

Requirements

• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• You have experience delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• You have experience in building and deploying SaaS software on any one of the cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure
• You have strong experience in Java programming and have built and deployed Java based microservices
• You have experience with Kubernetes
• You have been responsible for operating production services and organizing/participating in on-call rotations
• You actively mentor other team members, identifying areas for focus and improvement

Responsibilities

• Drive technical and business strategy in the Observability department
• Influence the product roadmap. Drive innovations from ideation to customer adoption
• Drive system design. Create design documents, collaborate within and across teams
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Build and operate critical systems. Own their reliability, performance, and availability
• Participate in on-call rotations
• Mentor and support other team members
• Strive to become a subject matter expert for observability products and systems
• Gain a deeper understanding of our cloud product, our customers and get to know the codebase of a large distributed system

Preferred Qualifications

Been a power user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)

Benefits

• Be part of a remote-only, globally distributed team
• Collaborate with passionate professionals across Grafana Labs
• Participate in company-wide hack-a-thons that help drive the direction of real-world innovation
• Attend cross-functional team off-sites
• Contribute to open-source projects and make a real impact
• Enjoy a culture that values work-life balance, personal growth, and professional development
• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)