Staff Software Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases | USA | Remote

Overview

Staff Software Engineer (Adaptive Telemetry, Databases) for Grafana Cloud, focused on developing adaptive telemetry solutions for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.

What you'll do

• Drive technical strategy and roadmap, defining architectural vision.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional initiatives.
• Own architecture, reliability, performance, and cost for critical systems.
• Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response, including post-mortems and systemic fixes.
• Improve observability, automation, and operational readiness to reduce toil and MTTR.
• Align stakeholders, remove blockers, and represent the team in cross-team planning.
• Mentor and grow engineering talent through coaching and design reviews.

What you'll need

• Proven delivery/operation of large distributed systems across multiple teams.
• Strong systems-design instincts covering latency, consistency, availability, scaling, and cost tradeoffs.
• Hands-on cloud and platform experience and cloud-native architectures.
• Reliability and performance ownership, including defining SLOs/SLIs and capacity planning.
• Excellent coding and design skills; lead technical designs (Go, or comparable languages).
• Comfort with AI-assisted development and using AI-powered developer tools.
• Familiarity with messaging/streaming systems (e.g., Kafka) and observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana or equivalents).

Details

• Position is remote and for candidates in USA time zones.