[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Grafana Labs

Role Description

The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project, and our mission is to provide the most in-depth way to let users manage their alerts. The backend-focused team works closely with customers and the Grafana Cloud teams to make Alerting work on-prem and at infinite scale in Cloud. The team's scope spans both Grafana Alerting and the SLOs product, so engineers get to work across two products that are deeply connected in how they help users detect and respond to problems.

Grafana Alerting is trusted by major organizations worldwide, monitoring essential medical devices and critical infrastructure. We thrive on collective creativity and diverse perspectives, and every team member is encouraged to contribute ideas that shape our product into a dependable tool.

Our domain is quite large, so to get an idea of the kind of work we do, here are some projects we recently worked on:

• Build distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts
• Unify Alerting setup and delivery to work the same for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts
• Build distributed systems to scale alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Take an active role in influencing our 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 it is in the hands of customers
• Embrace our 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 the reliability, performance, and availability
• Be a 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 our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

Qualifications

• You are a motivated self-starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer-focused; we build everything with our users in mind
• You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops
• Collaboration and communication: Good communication skills are a must
• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, but familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar is acceptable)
• Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
• Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Requirements

• In Spain, the compensation range for this role is EUR 97,000 - EUR 121,000
• Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process
• All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success

Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture - A remote-only company that brings together talent from around the world
• Scaling Organization - Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment
• Transparent Communication - Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates
• Innovation-Driven - Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things
• Open Source Roots - Built on community-driven values that shape how we work
• Empowered Teams - High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics
• Career Growth Pathways - Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career
• Approachable Leadership - Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human
• Passionate People - Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do
• In-Person onboarding - Thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’
• Balance is Key - Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum

Equal Opportunity Employer

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law.