Staff Software Engineer - Data Sources Core Services | Germany | Remote

2 hours, 18 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
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

  • Lead the design and development of internal cloud services and key user-facing features for the Data Sources Core Services squad.
  • Improve how queries are transformed, routed, and delivered at scale.
  • Influence the design of the microservice architecture.
  • Support the reliability, scalability, and operations of data sources in Grafana Cloud.
  • Engineer new connection types to remote data sources.
  • Collaborate with engineers and teams across the Grafana division on shared technical challenges.
  • Help shape the roadmap and contribute to career objectives.
  • Work independently in a remote-first environment while maintaining strong communication and coordination across distributed teams.
  • Use AI coding assistants and frontier models in day-to-day development workflows within security guidelines.

Requirements

  • Professional experience as a backend engineer.
  • Expertise in cloud microservice architecture and systems design.
  • Strong experience with Go and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with TypeScript and React is a plus.
  • Experience designing and developing software that runs in the cloud or in systems engineering.
  • Solid experience with distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with on-call responsibilities and operational/SRE tasks.
  • Experience with AI/LLM-powered systems, such as agentic workflow integrations or developer-efficiency tools.
  • Familiarity with backend languages beyond Go.
  • Experience with Jsonnet and Terraform.
  • Availability to work from the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland, or Sweden.
  • Bonus: familiarity with Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability tools.
  • Bonus: networking experience with DNS, SSH, or SOCKS.

Benefits

  • Base salary range in Germany: €109,000 - €137,000.
  • Equity and bonus eligibility, depending on role and location.
  • 100% remote, global work culture.
  • Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • In-person onboarding for new hires.
  • Access to company-funded AI coding assistant usage budgets.
  • Access to frontier AI models for development work.
  • Career growth pathways and transparent communication in a high-trust environment.

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