Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Search & Storage | US | Remote

The Grafana Search & Storage squad is developing Grafana's next-generation storage layer. As a key component of the 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, the team manages two features for discovery and organization: Search, the unified engine for finding and querying all Grafana data, and Folders, for hierarchical content management. This is a remote opportunity for candidates located in Canada and US.

Responsibilities

Take an active role in influencing the 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 in the hands of customers; Embrace the 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 reliability, performance, and availability; Be 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 the cloud product, customers, and the codebase of a large distributed system

Requirements

Motivated self starter with a bias towards action; Customer focused; Passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs; Pragmatism: ability to take on complex challenges, break them down into short feedback loops, and deliver MVPs iteratively; Collaboration and good communication skills in a fully remote setup; Solid experience with Go, Rust, Python, or other similar programming languages; Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with large distributed systems; Experience delivering projects from requirements gathering and brainstorming to shipping a product to customers in a self-driven way; Experience developing software that runs in the Cloud or experience with systems engineering; Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Nice to have

Have been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or on hobby/homelab projects); Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code

Benefits

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs); 100% remote, global culture; Scaling organization with career growth pathways; Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates; Innovation-driven environment with autonomy and support; Open source roots; Empowered teams with high trust and low ego culture; Approachable leadership; In-person onboarding; Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days; AI coding assistants with a company-funded usage budget and access to frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google