# Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Search & Storage | Canada | Remote

**Company**: Grafana Labs
**Location**: Canada (Remote)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: CAD $164,490 - $197,389
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Grafana Search & Storage squad. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing Grafana's next-generation storage layer and contributing to the company's open-source culture.

The Grafana Search & Storage squad is responsible for developing Grafana's next-generation storage layer, Unified Storage, which enables developers to build innovative applications using a Kubernetes-inspired Operator pattern to interact with data directly. The team also 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.

Responsibilities:

- Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and career objectives

- Work with the team to deliver new features and iterate on existing ones

- Drive projects from initial ideation to operations

- Embrace the open-source culture and contribute to other projects

- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems

- Participate in on-call rotations and take ownership of services

- Mentor and support other team members

- Collaborate with the team and communicate effectively

Requirements:

- Motivated self-starter with a bias towards action

- Customer-focused with a passion for creating intuitive products

- Solid experience with Go, Rust, Python, or similar programming languages

- Demonstrated knowledge of large distributed systems

- Experience with delivering projects from requirements to shipping

- Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or systems engineering

- Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software

Nice to Have:

- Experience with Grafana and Prometheus

- Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks

Benefits:

- 100% remote, global culture

- Scaling organization with meaningful work

- Transparent communication and open decision-making

- Innovation-driven with autonomy and support

- Open-source roots and community-driven values

- Empowered teams with high trust and low ego culture

- Career growth pathways and approachable leadership

- In-person onboarding and balance with a global annual leave policy

Compensation:

- CAD $164,490 - $197,389 per year

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Rust
- Python
- distributed systems
- cloud software

### Nice to have
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- on-call operations
- SRE tasks

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