Grafana

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

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Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring | Spain | Remote

2 hours, 26 minutes ago

Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany

Full-time

Lead

Backend Engineer

Software Development

Go Grafana Java Kubernetes .NET OpenTelemetry Prometheus Python Rust

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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

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Description

Design and implement scalable integrations for infrastructure components, applications, and data ingestion pipelines.
Create middleware components and libraries that simplify observability solution development and maintenance.
Build and maintain backend systems for Cloud Provider Observability, Database Observability, and Kubernetes Monitoring.
Develop dashboards, alerts, documentation, and infrastructure for observability products.
Collaborate with product, design, docs, Sales, and Support teams to deliver aligned customer experiences.
Lead technical direction and contribute to strategic discussions about observability solutions.
Estimate, plan, coordinate, and deliver large cross-system technical initiatives.
Coach and mentor team members and help identify process or technology issues.
Represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events when needed.
Contribute to open source projects and communities, including Alloy, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Beyla, and related efforts.

Requirements

8+ years of experience with at least one major programming language such as Python, .NET, Java, Go, or Rust.
Experience operating high-scale production systems on Kubernetes, including monitoring, on-call participation, incident response, and postmortem practices.
Familiarity with observability tooling such as Grafana.
Strong understanding of time-series data, metrics cardinality challenges, and cost/performance tradeoffs in observability systems.
Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role, including setting technical direction and influencing architecture beyond your immediate team.
Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including scalability, consistency, high availability, and failure modes.
Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software.
Experience delivering projects end-to-end in a self-driven manner.
Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
Strong mentoring and leadership skills.
Passion for observability and willingness to write documentation and blog posts.
Relevant open source experience, ideally in the observability domain.
Willingness to become an active member of the OpenTelemetry and Prometheus communities.
Comfort operating production services and organizing on-call, preferred.
Experience with Prometheus in high-cardinality, multi-tenant environments, preferred.
Experience with OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines or similar telemetry ingestion systems, preferred.
Kubernetes certification such as CKA, CKAD, or another CNCF Kubernetes certification, preferred.
Experience developing Kubernetes operators, controllers, or custom resources, preferred.
Strong understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts, preferred.
Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects, preferred.
Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications, preferred.

Benefits

Competitive compensation in Spain of EUR 94,025 to EUR 112,830, depending on level, experience, and skillset.
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) included for all roles.
100% remote, global work environment.
Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year.
3 days of annual leave reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
In-person onboarding with fellow new hires.
Defined career growth pathways.
Access to company-funded AI coding assistant usage budget and frontier models, within security guidelines.

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