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Key Responsibilities

You will bring your passion for observability and software engineering expertise to help us take our infrastructure monitoring capabilities within Grafana Cloud to the next level. This will include working with our Kubernetes monitoring and Cloud Provider observability solutions.

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

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is entirely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude, good communication skills, and transparency are a must.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

Strong 5+ 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.
In-depth knowledge of at least one major cloud provider, including core services, APIs, identity and access models, networking, and operational patterns
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 driving projects from ideation to production.
Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management

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
Understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts

What you’ll bring to the role

At Grafana Labs, we define senior roles via the scope of their business impact more than via their expertise or their specific activities. So the most important thing we are looking for in an engineer is the ability to take ownership. You will need to drive technical implementations working with the upstream community and contribute to business conversations, helping shape the long-term strategy.

You have a passion for observability and like to share your knowledge by writing documentation and blog posts.
You love to engage with customers and help them out.
You have excellent communication skills.
You have relevant open source experience, ideally in the observability domain.
You are willing to become an active member of the OpenTelemetry and Prometheus communities.
You’re curious and you enjoy learning new programming languages and frameworks, setting up examples, and figuring out how things work.
You have a good understanding of typical production environments. Ideally you have been responsible for operating production services and organizing on-call.
You actively mentor other team members, identifying areas for focus and improvement.

In Germany, the Base compensation range for this role is €97,034 - €116,441. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.

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*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs

100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.

Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.