Description
Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Adaptive Telemetry group, part of the Databases department. The successful candidate will drive technical strategy and roadmap, lead end-to-end delivery of large projects, and own architecture, reliability, performance, and cost for critical systems.
Responsibilities:
- Drive technical strategy and roadmap
- Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects
- Own architecture, reliability, performance, and cost for critical systems
- Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response
- Improve observability, automation, and operational readiness
- Align stakeholders and remove blockers
- Mentor and grow engineering talent
- Represent engineering internally and externally
Requirements:
- Proven delivery of large distributed systems
- Strong systems-design instincts
- Hands-on cloud and platform experience
- Reliability and performance ownership
- Excellent coding and design skills
- Comfort with AI-assisted development
- Experience with messaging and telemetry
- Influence without authority
- Strong communicator
Benefits:
- 100% remote, global culture
- Scaling organisation with meaningful work
- Transparent communication
- Innovation-driven environment
- Open source roots
- Empowered teams
- Career growth pathways
- Approachable leadership
- Passionate people
- In-person onboarding
- Balance is key with 30 days annual leave per annum