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