Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability Provider | UK | Remote

3 weeks, 5 days ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Grafana

Grafana

Grafana is the open observability platform providing analytics, monitoring, and visualization solutions with a focus on user control and cost efficiency.

IT Services
1K-5K
Founded 2014
$535M raised

Description

  • Design and implement scalable integrations for infrastructure components, databases, and applications.
  • Build middleware components, SDKs, and libraries that simplify observability solution development and maintenance.
  • Work with product, design, and documentation teams to develop features aligned with product strategy and customer needs.
  • Support the technical direction and long-term vision of the observability team.
  • Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Support to deliver a cohesive customer experience.
  • Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations and own the services you run.
  • Represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events when needed.
  • Contribute to open source projects and communities, including observability-related initiatives.
  • Drive technical implementations with upstream communities and contribute to business and strategy discussions.
  • Mentor teammates and help identify areas for team and process improvement.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience with at least one programming language; Go is used but not required.
  • Long-term experience in a major language such as Python, .NET, Java, or Rust, with willingness to learn Go.
  • 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 tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience driving projects from ideation to production.
  • Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
  • Experience participating in on-call rotation and incident management.
  • Experience designing and building observability backends (preferred).
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects with successful pull requests and community collaboration (preferred).
  • Understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts (preferred).
  • Excellent communication skills and an independent, transparent working style.
  • Ability to work remotely from the UK, Spain, Germany, or Sweden.

Benefits

  • Base compensation range in the UK: £91,755 - £110,106.
  • Equity and bonus opportunities, where applicable.
  • 100% remote work with a global team.
  • 30 days of annual leave per year.
  • 3 shutdown days reserved within annual leave to help the team disconnect.
  • Career growth pathways with defined opportunities to develop.
  • In-person onboarding with fellow new hires.
  • Remote-first, transparent, and high-trust culture.

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