Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Search & Storage
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Job description
Software engineer on the Grafana Search & Storage squad, building and operating Grafana's next-generation Unified Storage layer plus the Search and Folders features, and running them at scale in Grafana Cloud.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Canada
- Pay
- CAD 164,490 – 197,389 / year
What you'll do
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
- Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
- Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team's scope
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
- Be a part of your team's on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you're running
- Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
- Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system
What we're looking for
- Motivated self starter with a bias towards action
- Customer focused
- Passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs
- Pragmatism: able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
- Collaboration and communication: good communication skills are a must in a fully remote setup
- Solid experience with Go, Rust, Python, or other similar programming languages
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with large distributed systems
- Experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer's hands in a self-driven way
- Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering
- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
- Independent attitude and good communication skills
Nice to have
- Have been a 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)
- Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code
Your team
Grafana Search & Storage squad
Part of the App Platform; develops Grafana's next-generation storage layer (Unified Storage) and manages Search, the unified engine for finding and querying all Grafana data, and Folders, for hierarchical content management.
Benefits
- 100% Remote, Global Culture
- Scaling Organization
- Transparent Communication
- Innovation-Driven
- Open Source Roots
- Empowered Teams
- Career Growth Pathways
- Approachable Leadership
- Passionate People
- In-Person onboarding
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Company-funded AI tool usage budget
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About Grafana Labs
The company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions.
Key facts
- Observability / software
- 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries
- Grafana Cloud trusted by more than 10,000 organizations
- Backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum
Partners & customers
What they value
- Transparency
- Autonomy
- Trust
- Open source
- High trust, low ego
- Outcomes over optics