Senior Software Engineer, Adaptive Telemetry

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Adaptive Telemetry group within the Databases department. This role focuses on ensuring all telemetry stored in Grafana's databases is worthy of attention. The position involves working on large-scale, performance-critical services like Adaptive Metrics and Adaptive Logs, as well as expanding this vision to other telemetry signals.

Key responsibilities include:

• Influencing the product roadmap and personal career objectives
• Delivering new features and iterating based on results
• Driving projects from ideation to operation
• Designing, building, and maintaining critical systems
• Participating in on-call rotations
• Mentoring team members and collaborating on design discussions

The ideal candidate should have:

• Solid experience with at least one programming language (Go preferred, but Python, C, C++, Rust, or similar are transferable)
• Experience in delivering projects end-to-end
• Familiarity with cloud software development or systems engineering
• Knowledge of microservices architectures and distributed systems
• Ability to write clean, robust, and performant software

Nice-to-have skills include experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, and on-call/SRE tasks.

Grafana Labs offers a remote-first, global work environment that values diversity and collaboration. The tech stack primarily consists of Go services running on Kubernetes clusters leveraging cloud object storage.

This role provides an opportunity to work on cutting-edge observability solutions, contribute to open-source projects, and be part of a growing, innovative company in the cloud-native space.