# Staff Software Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases | USA | Remote

**Company**: Grafana Labs
**Location**: United States (Remote)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 174,986 - USD 209,983
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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, own architecture, reliability, performance, and cost for critical systems, define SLOs/SLIs, and lead incident response.

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 Organization

- Transparent Communication

- Innovation-Driven

- Open Source Roots

- Empowered Teams

- Career Growth Pathways

- Approachable Leadership

- Passionate People

- In-Person onboarding

- Balance is Key

Compensation & Rewards:

- Base compensation range: USD 174,986 - USD 209,983

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- C
- C++
- Rust
- Kubernetes
- microservices
- containers
- IaC
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Kafka
- messaging systems
- observability tooling

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