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Grafana Labs

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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.

📋 Description

• Lead projects from concept to rollout. • Design, build, and operate core components of a distributed database. • Wear the product hat. • Drive operational excellence. • Partner across Grafana. • Support your teammates through design conversations, code review, and pairing in a fully remote setup. • Participate in on-call (EMEA rotation) for the services you build. • Contribute to open source.

🎯 Requirements

• Solid experience with a systems language. • Distributed systems in production. • Product sense. • Curiosity and courage. • Strong software craftsmanship. • Operational mindset. • Pragmatism. • Clear communication. • Bonus Points For: • Experience with profiling and performance engineering: flamegraphs, pprof, perf, or similar tooling. • Experience with OpenTelemetry or large-scale observability systems. • Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure at scale on Kubernetes. • Experience building for AI/LLM consumers: structured APIs, metadata and discovery endpoints, deterministic outputs. • Open-source contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the open. • Experience as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Pyroscope, or similar in a previous role (or on a homelab). • Experience in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

🏖️ 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 • Balance is Key - global annual leave policy of 30 days