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Posted YesterdaySenior Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability Provider | Germany | Remote
at Grafana Labs
GermanyRemote
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-quality, scalable integrations for various infrastructure components, databases, and applications
- Create middleware components, SDKs, and libraries that simplify development and maintenance of observability solutions
- Support the technical direction and vision of the team, contributing to strategic discussions and future development of observability solutions
Requirements
- 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.
- In this role, you will be part of the team that designs, builds, and scales our Cloud Observability product suite, providing customers with the ability to collect, visualize, analyze, and understand metrics and logs data from hundreds of cloud provider services.
- We also strive to incorporate OSS contributions in our work by contributing to projects such as Alloy, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Beyla.
- The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a SpaceX launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France.
- The Grafana stack has grown to include two other open-source projects, Grafana Loki (for logs) and Grafana Tempo (for traces).
- At Grafana Labs, our engineers have a dedicated career path and do not have to become managers to progress in their career. Senior Software Engineers at Grafana have a large amount of experience across multiple areas.
- This will include working with our Kubernetes monitoring and Cloud Provider observability solutions.
- experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but do not require candidates with Go experience. Long term
- experience in any major language (Python, .NET, Java, Rust, etc) with a willingness to learn Go is acceptable.
- In-depth knowledge of at least one major cloud provider, including core services, APIs, identity and access models, networking, and operational patterns •
- Experience with cloud-based software development and production systems •
- Experience writing clean, maintainable, robust, and performant software
- Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry) •
- Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Experience participating in an on-call rotation and incident management Preferred
- Experience designing and building observability backends for various systems and applications •
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects, with evidence of successful pull requests and community collaboration
- Understanding of metrics collection, visualization, and alerting concepts
- So the most important thing we are looking for in an engineer is the ability to take ownership.
- You will need to drive technical implementations working with the upstream community and contribute to business conversations, helping shape the long-term strategy.
- You have a passion for observability and like to share your knowledge by writing documentation and blog posts.
- You have relevant open source experience, ideally in the observability domain.
- You’re curious and you enjoy learning new programming languages and frameworks, setting up examples, and figuring out how things work.
- You have a good understanding of typical production environments. Ideally you have been responsible for operating production services and organizing on-call.
- Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings.
Experience
- Qualifications: Strong 5+ years of
Benefits
- In Germany, the Base compensation range for this role is €97,034 - €116,441. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process.
- Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here . #LI-Remote
- *Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range &
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Contact
- Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X .
Additional details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 are looking for candidates in the UK, Spain, Germany or Sweden.
- Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana.
- The Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it.
- This includes the dashboards, alerts, documentation, and infrastructure while working closely with other teams to ensure seamless experiences.