[Remote] Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Search & Storage | Canada | Remote

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grafana Labs develops Grafana Cloud, an observability platform. The Senior Software Engineer will help build and operate Grafana’s next-generation storage layer, Unified Storage, and develop Search and Folders features for discovering and organizing Grafana data.

Responsibilities

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
• Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and * availability
• Be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system
• As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must

Skills

• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer focused
• We build everything with our users in mind
• You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs
• Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You'll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
• Solid experience with Go, Rust, Python, or other similar programming languages
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with large distributed systems
• Experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer's hands in a self-driven way
• Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud o r experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• An independent attitude and good communication skills are a must
• Have been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success.
• A company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants.
• Access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
• 100% remote, global culture.
• Meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open-source roots and community-driven values.
• High-trust, low-ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
• Transparent, involved, visible, and approachable leadership.
• Smart, supportive colleagues who care deeply about what they do.
• In-person onboarding with fellow new Grafanistas.
• 30 days of annual leave per annum, including 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.

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