Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability

Salary: £43,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements

• We require 5+ years of experience with at least one programming language; while we use Go, experience in any major language such as Python, .NET, Java, or Rust is acceptable if you are willing to learn Go.
• We require in-depth knowledge of at least one major cloud provider, including core services, APIs, identity and access models, networking, and operational patterns.
• We require experience with cloud-based software development and production systems.
• We require experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software.
• We require familiarity with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.
• We require experience driving projects from ideation to production.
• We require experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• We require excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• We require experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management.
• We prefer experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications.
• We prefer experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects, with evidence of successful pull requests and community collaboration.
• We prefer understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts.
• We value a passion for observability and the ability to share knowledge through documentation and blog posts.
• We value strong communication skills and the ability to engage with customers.
• We value relevant open source experience, ideally in the observability domain.
• We value willingness to become an active member of the OpenTelemetry and Prometheus communities.
• We value curiosity, a desire to learn new programming languages and frameworks, and the ability to figure out how things work.
• We value experience operating production services and organizing on-call.
• We value the ability to mentor other team members and identify areas for improvement.

Responsibilities

• We design and implement high-quality, scalable integrations for infrastructure components, databases, and applications.
• We create middleware components, SDKs, and libraries that simplify the development and maintenance of observability solutions.
• We represent Grafana Labs in open source forums, working groups, and events when necessary.
• We work with product teams, design, and docs to develop features that align with product strategy and customer needs.
• We support the technical direction and vision of the team and contribute to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions.
• We collaborate with Sales, Product, and Support teams to deliver a holistic product experience.
• We participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services we run.
• We contribute to open source projects that may not directly fall within our teams scope.
• We contribute to the design, build, and scale of our Cloud Observability product suite, including Kubernetes monitoring and Cloud Provider observability solutions.
• We help customers collect, visualize, analyze, and understand metrics and logs data from cloud provider services.
• We estimate, plan, coordinate, and deliver large tasks spanning multiple systems.
• We coach and mentor other team members.
• We identify and resolve issues with technology and product processes.

Technologies

• Cloud
• Grafana
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• Python
• Rust
• microservices
• ASP.NET
• AI
• DevOps
• HTTP
• OSS
• Salesforce

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We are Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud and Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform built for scale. We are a 100% remote, remote-first company with more than 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, and we are looking for candidates based in the UK, Spain, Germany, or Sweden for this remote opportunity. Our culture is open source, collaborative, transparent, and innovation-driven, and we encourage contributions to the open source communities that shape our products. We offer a global work environment, strong career growth pathways, in-person onboarding, and a 30-day annual leave policy including Grafana Shutdown Days. For the UK, the base compensation range is £91,755 to £110,106, with equity, bonus where applicable, and additional benefits; compensation and benefits vary by location. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

last updated 28 week of 2026