Responsibilities
- Lead projects from concept through rollout, including design, delivery, operations, and customer follow-up.
- Design, build, and operate distributed database components for ingestion, storage, and query.
- Make trade-offs involving performance, cost, and system complexity.
- Join customer calls, translate pain points into deliverables, and directly shape the product roadmap.
- Own outcomes against SLOs and unit-cost targets, reduce toil through automation, and improve operational excellence.
- Collaborate with App Observability, Alloy, Tempo, and other Databases squads.
- Support teammates through design discussions, code reviews, and pairing.
- Participate in the EMEA on-call rotation and contribute to incident response and post-incident learning.
- Contribute to the Pyroscope open-source community, including reviewing external contributions and helping steer the project.
- Develop capabilities including adaptive profiling, trace-to-profile correlation, query scalability, BYOC automation, agent-ready APIs and CLI tooling, and OpenTelemetry-native profiling.
Requirements
- Experience with Go or another systems language such as Rust, C, C++, Python, or Java.
- Experience building and operating production distributed systems and cloud services, including multi-tenant data systems.
- Comfort with customer conversations, ambiguity, product shaping, and breaking complex problems into deliverable projects.
- Strong software craftsmanship, including clean, robust, performant, maintainable code.
- Experience with operational reliability, pager duty, SRE-style work, or infrastructure as code.
- Ability to work effectively in a fully remote, asynchronous environment through writing, reviews, and shipped code.
- Bonus: experience with profiling and performance tools such as flamegraphs, pprof, or perf.
- Bonus: experience with OpenTelemetry, large-scale observability systems, Kubernetes, or multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure.
- Bonus: experience building structured APIs and deterministic outputs for AI or LLM consumers.
- Bonus: open-source contribution or maintainership and experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Pyroscope, or similar systems.
Benefits
- 100% remote role for candidates in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Ireland.
- In-person onboarding is provided.
- 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) are included.
- Company-funded usage budget for AI coding assistants.
- Career growth pathways and a transparent, collaborative remote culture.
About Grafana
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, while getting the visibility they need to run AI systems reliably and at scale. 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 1,400+ 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.