5 hours ago
Base Salary
$154k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end technical direction for Session Replay across frontend, backend, and data systems.
- Design backend systems using columnar and analytical storage for large-scale session data.
- Define data models, ingestion pipelines, and query patterns.
- Lead investigation workflows connecting replay with logs, metrics, traces, and other telemetry.
- Make architectural decisions affecting multiple teams and products.
- Collaborate with Frontend Observability, Synthetic Monitoring, and Core Grafana teams.
- Engage directly with customers to gather feedback and support instrumentation and adoption.
- Improve engineering standards, patterns, and operational practices.
- Mentor engineers and help develop technical leadership.
Requirements
- Senior-level experience building software and reasoning about data-intensive systems involving ingestion, storage, querying, and cost trade-offs.
- Experience owning features and making technical decisions in ambiguous problem spaces.
- Ability to communicate design decisions clearly in written and spoken English in a remote-first environment.
- User-centered software development mindset and ability to understand user context and goals.
- Strong focus on maintainable, readable, automated software and complex technical solutions.
- Comfort using AI tools thoughtfully in engineering workflows.
- Preferred experience with columnar or analytical databases, observability tools, debugging or developer-focused tools, privacy and access control in data-heavy systems, or performance-sensitive systems involving large datasets, real-time queries, or session data.
Benefits
- 100% remote work with candidates sought in USA Eastern time zones; in-person onboarding is provided.
- 30 days of annual leave per year, including three Grafana Shutdown Days, subject to local legislation.
- Restricted Stock Units are included with all roles.
- Career growth pathways, transparent communication, empowered teams, and a global collaborative culture.
- Access to company-funded usage of modern AI coding assistants and frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Tech Stack
About Grafana
Grafana Labs builds open-source observability tools and a managed SaaS, Grafana Cloud, used by engineering and SRE teams to monitor, visualize, and analyze telemetry. Its products include Grafana dashboards plus Loki (logs), Tempo (traces), and Mimir (metrics), offered as cloud subscriptions and enterprise software. Privately held and headquartered in New York, it serves customers such as Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce.