Senior Software Engineer, Grafana OSS Big Tent | Canada | Remote

August 11

Apply Now

Receive Emails with Similar Jobs

Grafana Labs

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

Enterprise • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Grafana Labs is a company that specializes in open-source observability technologies and solutions. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for logging, metrics, tracing, and profile management with products like Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir. Their offerings are designed to help businesses visualize, monitor, and alert on data from various sources, providing capabilities such as anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and service level objective management using AI/ML insights. Grafana Labs provides both cloud-based and self-managed solutions, ideal for infrastructure, application, and frontend observability. Additionally, their platform supports integration with various data sources like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, making them a key player in the observability and infrastructure monitoring space.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📋 Description

• As a Senior Software Engineer in the OSS Big Tent squad, you will take a leading role in developing and enhancing a diverse portfolio of open source plugins that retrieve the data powering Grafana dashboards used by teams worldwide. • Our team focuses on building new open source data source plugins, continuously improving existing ones and ensuring seamless customer experiences. A key aspect of this role is guaranteeing the smooth operation and reliability of our plugins in the Grafana Cloud, helping us deliver on our commitment to world-class observability tools. • Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. You’ll have the opportunity to work across the Data Sources team and partner with other squads within the Grafana division to drive innovation and solve complex engineering challenges. • As we continue on a growth trajectory, we are constantly evolving our ways of working to ensure they are scalable and adaptable to the needs of our team and users. • What You’ll Be Doing: • Building Grafana plugins to integrate third party services or databases into Grafana • Innovating our plugin system to allow for enhanced capabilities • Supporting the operations and reliability of our plugins in Grafana Cloud • Coming up with suggestions for process improvements • Providing technical support in customer escalations • Working closely with the rest of the Grafana Division • What Makes You a Great Fit: • You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind and respectful. We value autonomy and enabling decisions over committees and red tape. We are a distributed team, working remotely, on a product that will be used by engineers all over the world – the ability to work on your own and ship working code is crucial. • You have solid professional experience as a Backend Engineer with expertise in Go and backend services. Some experience with frontend technologies is valued... • You have strong coding skills and operational experience; you were responsible for operating the software you have built. • You have experience participating in on-call rotations to support software in production, ensuring reliability and responding to incidents as needed. • You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a user-centered approach. • You know how to transform ideas into working code, you are able to design a solution, get feedback and deliver large projects. • You are a self-driven individual who understands the power of feedback loops in making roadmap decisions and driving our product forward. • You are able to communicate the design decisions clearly in written and spoken English. • You enjoy working on complex solutions. Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows. • You have experience in some or all of the following: • Backend technologies: Strong expertise in Go and familiarity with other backend languages is valued. • Containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes. • CI/CD and DevOps: Knowledge of building pipelines, automated testing and deployment strategies. • Monitoring and observability: Familiarity with tools like Grafana, Prometheus or other observability platforms. • Front-end technologies (nice to have): TypeScript, React, Redux and RxJS.

🎯 Requirements

• Comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key. • Solid professional experience as a Backend Engineer with expertise in Go and backend services. • Strong coding skills and operational experience; you were responsible for operating the software you have built. • Experience participating in on-call rotations to support software in production, ensuring reliability and responding to incidents as needed. • You have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a user-centered approach. • You know how to transform ideas into working code, you are able to design a solution, get feedback and deliver large projects. • You are a self-driven individual who understands the power of feedback loops in making roadmap decisions and driving our product forward. • You are able to communicate the design decisions clearly in written and spoken English. • You enjoy working on complex solutions. Grafana is a highly technological solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows. • You have experience in some or all of the following: • Backend technologies: Strong expertise in Go and familiarity with other backend languages is valued. • Containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes. • CI/CD and DevOps: Knowledge of building pipelines, automated testing and deployment strategies. • Monitoring and observability: Familiarity with tools like Grafana, Prometheus or other observability platforms. • Front-end technologies (nice to have): TypeScript, React, Redux and RxJS.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture - remote-only company, united by 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 Grafana teammates 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 Grafana Shutdown Days to disconnect. We will comply with local legislation where applicable.