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

1 hour, 29 minutes ago
Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
Go Grafana Java Kubernetes Microservices .NET OpenTelemetry Prometheus Python Rust
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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
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Founded 2014
$535M raised
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Description

  • Design and implement scalable integrations for infrastructure components, applications, and data ingestion pipelines.
  • Build middleware components and libraries that simplify development and maintenance of observability solutions.
  • Own backend services for opinionated applications such as Cloud Provider Observability, Database Observability, and Kubernetes Monitoring.
  • Develop dashboards, alerts, documentation, and infrastructure that support the Cloud Observability stack.
  • Collaborate with product, design, docs, Sales, and Support teams to deliver features and a cohesive customer experience.
  • Lead technical direction and contribute to strategic decisions for the team’s observability solutions.
  • Estimate, plan, coordinate, and deliver large cross-system initiatives.
  • Mentor and coach other team members while helping resolve technology and product process issues.
  • Represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events when needed.
  • Contribute to open source projects and community efforts such as Alloy, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Beyla.

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 postmortems.
  • Familiarity with observability tooling such as Grafana.
  • Strong understanding of time-series data, metrics cardinality challenges, and observability cost/performance tradeoffs.
  • Experience in a hands-on technical leadership role influencing architecture and setting technical direction.
  • Deep knowledge of distributed systems concepts including scalability, consistency, high availability, and failure modes.
  • Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver projects from start to finish 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 is preferred.
  • Experience with OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines or similar telemetry ingestion systems is preferred.
  • A Kubernetes certification such as CKA, CKAD, or another CNCF Kubernetes certification is preferred.
  • Experience developing Kubernetes operators, controllers, or custom resources is preferred.
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects is preferred.
  • Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications is preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote-first, 100% remote global work environment.
  • Compensation in the UK range of GBP 103,958 to GBP 124,750, depending on level, experience, and skillset.
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for all roles.
  • Global annual leave policy of 30 days per year.
  • Three annual leave days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
  • In-person onboarding for new hires.
  • Access to modern AI coding assistants with a company-funded usage budget.
  • Access to frontier models for development work, subject to security guidelines.

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