Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs
Grafana Labs develops open-source observability software for understanding the performance and health of infrastructure, applications, and frontend systems. Its platform brings together metrics, logs, traces, and profiles through products including Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir, helping organizations visualize data, monitor services, investigate anomalies, analyze root causes, and manage service level objectives. Grafana Labs offers cloud and self-managed deployment options, with integrations for technologies such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry. The company operates in the enterprise SaaS and artificial intelligence sectors and builds tools for teams responsible for infrastructure monitoring and modern observability.

Staff Backend Software Engineer, Loki (Canada Remote)

Build and operate Go-based distributed observability databases for Grafana Cloud. Lead work on reliability, performance, Kubernetes services, and open-source contributions.

Description

  • Own the design, development, operation, and maintenance of critical systems, with responsibility for reliability, performance, and availability.
  • Help shape the product roadmap and set personal career goals.
  • Partner with the team to deliver features and refine them based on results.
  • Lead projects from early planning through customer release and ongoing operations.
  • Contribute to open-source projects outside the team’s immediate remit.
  • Join on-call rotations and take ownership of operated services.
  • Mentor colleagues and help them succeed.
  • Take part in design reviews and collaborate with the team.
  • Build knowledge of the cloud product, customer needs, and its large distributed systems codebase.

Requirements

  • Bring solid experience with at least one programming language; Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar experience is relevant.
  • Have some experience carrying projects from requirements gathering and brainstorming through delivery to customers.
  • Have some experience building cloud software or working in systems engineering.
  • Write clean, robust, performant, maintainable software.
  • Be able to work independently in a fully remote environment.
  • Communicate effectively.
  • Experience with low-level database, storage-layer, or query-engine code is a plus.
  • Kubernetes experience is a plus.
  • Operational experience with Grafana and/or Prometheus is a plus.
  • Exposure to microservices and distributed systems, or a desire to learn, is a plus.
  • Familiarity with on-call work, operations or SRE tasks, or infrastructure as code is a plus.

Benefits

  • Equity.
  • Bonus, where applicable.
  • A company-funded budget for modern AI coding assistants.
  • Access to leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
  • Fully remote work.
  • Career development pathways.
  • In-person onboarding.
  • 30 days of annual leave each year.
  • Three annual leave days set aside for Grafana Shutdown Days.

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