Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Search & Storage

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI.

We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries. This is a remote opportunity for candidates located in Canada and US.

The Opportunity

The Grafana Search & Storage squad is developing Grafana’s next-generation storage layer. As a key component of our App Platform, Unified Storage enables developers to build innovative applications using a Kubernetes-inspired Operator pattern to interact with data directly.

In addition to operating Unified Storage at scale within Grafana Cloud, our team manages two essential features for discovery and organization: Search, the unified engine for finding and querying all Grafana data, and Folders, for hierarchical content management.

What You’ll Be Doing

• 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, our customers, and the codebase of a large distributed system.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• You are a motivated self-starter with a bias towards action.
• You are customer-focused with a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs.
• Pragmatism: Ability to take on complex challenges, break them down, analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data, and progress iteratively.
• 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 to shipping to customers in a self-driven way.
• Experience with developing software that runs in the cloud or systems engineering.
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.

Bonus Points For

• Experience as a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call or homelab projects).
• Familiarity with being on-call, performing operations/SRE tasks, or infrastructure as code.