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

🌍 Remote · United States 💼 Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grafana Labs is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Grafana Search & Storage squad. The role develops and operates Grafana’s next-generation storage layer, Search, and Folders, delivering reliable systems and features for Grafana Cloud and its users.

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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success.
  • Company-funded usage budget for modern AI coding assistants.
  • Access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
  • 100% remote, global culture.
  • Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
  • In-person onboarding with fellow new ‘Grafanistas’.
  • Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.

Company Overview

  • Grafana Labs delivers the open observability cloud, helping builders everywhere turn signals into action. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://grafana.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Grafana Labs has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 1 in 2022, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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