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

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on the Grafana Search & Storage squad, developing Grafana's next-generation storage layer, including Unified Storage, Search and Folders as part of the App Platform.

What you'll do

• Influence the roadmap and your own career objectives.
• Deliver new features with your team, then use the results to iterate and improve.
• Drive projects from initial ideation through to operations once in the hands of customers.
• Contribute to open-source projects that may fall outside your team's scope.
• Design, build, operate and maintain critical systems, owning their reliability, performance and availability.
• Take part in on-call rotations and own the services you run.
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team.
• Learn about the cloud product, customers and the codebase of a large distributed system.

What you'll need

• Motivated self-starter with a bias towards action.
• Customer focused, with a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers' needs.
• Pragmatism: able to break complex challenges down into modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback, and iterate.
• Good communication skills and collaboration 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 through 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 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.

Details

• Remote role for candidates located in Canada and US.
• Compensation in Canada: OTE/Base of CAD $170,247 - $204,297, varying by level, experience and skillset. Roles include RSUs.
• Access to modern AI coding assistants with a company-funded usage budget.
• Annual leave of 30 days per annum, including 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days.
• In-person onboarding.