Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs' Identity and Access team as a Staff Software Engineer! This remote position (US/Canada, EST/CST) focuses on authentication and authorization systems at scale. You'll work with Go, contribute to open-source and proprietary code, and collaborate with a team focused on streamlining Grafana's authentication and authorization experience. The role requires experience with distributed systems and a passion for security and maintainability. Grafana offers a collaborative and supportive environment with opportunities to work directly with customers and contribute to the community.

Requirements

• Have experience with authentication and authorization systems at scale
• Be comfortable working in a remote-first company and understand the importance of communication
• Have an interest in the authentication and authorization domains
• Have solid experience as a Software Engineer and excel at working with Go
• Have dealt with common distributed systems problems before (e.g., scalability, multi-tenancy, data isolation, HA, …)
• Be able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself, by collaborating with other engineers, product managers, and designers very closely
• Care and value security, code maintainability, readability, and testing
• Enjoy working as a team
• Be interested in working directly with customers

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on reviewing feature requests and escalations from the OSS community and our customer base
• Identify high-level roadmap themes and overall drive the direction of authentication and authorization at Grafana Labs
• Raise and fix bugs
• Be on-call for what you have built
• Develop and test new features
• Trial innovative ideas for our products
• Closely collaborate with UX
• Contribute to design docs

Preferred Qualifications

• Enjoy learning, growing, and supporting others to do the same
• Enjoy working on complex solutions
• Enjoy being part of the community

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)
• Remote work