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

15 hours 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

  • Design and implement scalable integrations for infrastructure components, applications, and data ingestion pipelines.
  • Build middleware components and libraries that simplify observability solution development and maintenance.
  • Own and maintain backend services by deploying well-tested, clean code.
  • Work on Grafana Cloud’s Kubernetes monitoring solution and related infrastructure monitoring capabilities.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and documentation teams to deliver features aligned with product strategy and customer needs.
  • Lead the technical direction and vision of the team and contribute to strategic planning.
  • Coordinate and deliver large tasks spanning multiple systems.
  • Work with Sales, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic customer experience.
  • Represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events when needed.
  • Contribute to open source projects and communities, including adjacent projects beyond the team’s direct scope.

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 on-call, 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 architectural decisions.
  • 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.
  • Experience operating or scaling Prometheus in high-cardinality, multi-tenant environments (bonus).
  • Experience with OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines or similar telemetry ingestion systems (bonus).
  • Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or another CNCF Kubernetes certification (bonus).
  • Experience developing Kubernetes operators, controllers, or custom resources (bonus).
  • Strong understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts (bonus).
  • Open source contribution or maintenance experience with evidence of pull requests and community collaboration (bonus).
  • Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications (bonus).

Benefits

  • Remote-first, 100% remote global work environment.
  • Compensation in Sweden of SEK 878,578 to SEK 1,054,294, depending on level, experience, and skillset.
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for all team members.
  • Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year.
  • 3 shutdown days reserved within annual leave for a company-wide break.
  • Company-funded AI coding assistant usage budget and access to frontier models.
  • In-person onboarding for new team members.
  • Defined career growth pathways and development opportunities.

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