Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs, a remote-first, open-source company, as a Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Integrations Engineer. You will be part of a team maintaining integrations allowing customers to collect and visualize metrics from various systems and applications. The role involves designing and implementing high-quality, scalable integrations, developing automation frameworks, creating middleware components, representing Grafana Labs in open-source forums, and collaborating with product teams. Staff Software Engineers at Grafana have extensive experience, plan and deliver large tasks, and mentor team members. This is a career-defining opportunity for someone passionate about observability and contributing to open-source communities. Grafana Labs offers a remote-first global culture, transparent communication, and opportunities for career growth.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or related disciplines in a programming-focused role
• Ability/interest to work with Jsonnet for templating is a plus
• Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems
• Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software
• Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in an autonomous, self-driven manner
• Familiarity with metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry)
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain our portfolio of cloud integrations and observability apps, 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
• Develop automation frameworks and tools to ensure quality and consistency across our integration portfolio
• Create middleware components, SDKs, and libraries that simplify development and maintenance of observability solutions
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to or maintaining Open Source projects, with evidence of successful pull requests and community collaboration
• Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, setting technical direction and leading project teams
• Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications
• Experience developing and maintaining Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry collectors
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
• In-depth knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Windows, macOS) and cloud platform platform internals

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)
• 30 days per annum of paid time off
• 3 days of annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days