Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Search & Storage

Details

Grafana Labs is developing Grafana’s next-generation storage layer. The Grafana Search & Storage squad operates Unified Storage at scale within Grafana Cloud and manages Search, the unified engine for finding and querying Grafana data, as well as Folders for hierarchical content management.

Responsibilities

• Influence the product roadmap and personal career objectives.
• Work with the team to deliver new features, evaluate results, and iterate.
• Drive projects from initial ideation through operations after release.
• Contribute to open-source projects, including projects outside the team’s direct scope.
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, with ownership of reliability, performance, and availability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of operated services.
• Mentor and support team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team.
• Develop a deeper understanding of Grafana Cloud, customers, and the codebase of a large distributed system.
• Communicate effectively and work independently in a remote-first engineering organization.

Requirements

• Motivated, self-starting approach with a bias toward action.
• Customer-focused mindset and passion for creating intuitive products.
• Pragmatic approach to complex challenges, including breaking work into modular solutions, delivering MVPs, gathering feedback, and iterating.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Solid experience with Go, Rust, Python, or similar programming languages.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with large distributed systems.
• Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering and ideation through shipping to customers.
• Experience developing software that runs in the cloud or experience with systems engineering.
• Experience writing clean, robust, performant, and maintainable software.

Bonus Points

• Experience using Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles, including on-call experience or hobby and homelab projects.
• Familiarity with on-call responsibilities, operations, SRE tasks, or infrastructure as code.

Developer Productivity

Grafana Labs supports the use of modern AI coding assistants within security guidelines and provides a company-funded usage budget. AI-assisted development may be used for prototyping, test generation, refactoring, documentation, and incident follow-ups, with code review and quality standards. Team members also have access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Compensation

In the United States, the on-target earnings/base compensation range is USD $154,445–$185,334. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skill set. The role includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Country-specific compensation ranges apply.

Benefits

• 100% remote, global culture.
• Career growth pathways.
• In-person onboarding.
• Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
• Transparent communication, empowered teams, and an open-source culture.