Grafana Labs
Technology
StaffSoftwareEngineer-Platform,SysEng
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“Staff Software Engineer - Platform, SysEng at Grafana Labs. Skills: Platform engineering, Distributed systems, Cloud-native architectures. Build highly available, low-latency stack. Improve performance”
What You'll Achieve.
Grow millions of metrics per second; Reduce new region build timelines
Industry & Context.
Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis
On-call rotations, Canadian time zones preferred
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Proven delivery of large distributed systems, Experience shipping and operating complex systems, Clear evidence of technical leadership, Demonstrable experience in system design, Deep understanding of tradeoffs, Hands-on cloud and platform experience, Solid experience with cloud-native architectures, Operational practices for healthy cloud-native systems, Reliability and performance ownership, Comfortable defining SLOs/SLIs, Capacity planning, Tuning performance, Driving reliability work end-to-end, Excellent coding and design
Nice to Have
Experience with Tanka, Experience with Jsonnet
What You'll Do.
Build highly available
Operate efficiently and effectively
Provide engineers tools
and Kubernetes clusters
Take projects from conception to production
Manage infrastructure for teams
Reduce new region build timelines
Own full lifecycle of code
Look at developer feedback
Perform integration testing
Look at the big picture
Build better platforms
Invest in developer productivity
Use AI coding assistants
Pair development with code review
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Working with engineers; Working with management structures; Remote-first communication; Working with distributed systems; Cross-functional squad
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J. P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants located in Canadian time zones (EST + CST highly preferred at this time). Staff Backend Engineer - Platform SysEng The Opportunity: Grafana Cloud moves millions of metrics, log lines, and traces per second from our customers' environments into a highly available, low-latency stack that processes and stores this data, and serves them to dashboards and alerting tools. We aim to grow this to hundreds of millions per second, and it's critical that as we grow, we improve our performance, increase our reliability, and,
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