Base Salary
$100k - $124k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and own the technical architecture for the Identity squad’s authentication systems, including the edge authentication redesign
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, multi-quarter initiatives spanning multiple services and teams
- Spend approximately 55% of time on backend development in Golang, 25% on technical leadership and cross-team collaboration, and 20% on operations and reliability
- Mentor and develop senior engineers through technical guidance, design feedback, and professional support
- Serve as Grafana’s technical authority for OAuth, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and SCIM identity protocols
- Drive cross-team alignment on authentication standards, patterns, and engineering best practices
- Represent Grafana Labs at meetups and conferences and contribute to the identity and authentication community
Requirements
- Deep expertise in distributed systems engineering with Go and experience owning large-scale production systems end-to-end
- Experience defining technical direction and independently driving architectural decisions with cross-team impact
- Extensive experience building and operating low-latency, high-throughput services in distributed, multi-tenant environments
- Track record leading complex, multi-quarter initiatives across multiple teams or systems
- Ability to mentor and develop senior engineers
- Strong understanding of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, reliability, security, and product velocity tradeoffs
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- Expert-level understanding of OAuth 2.x/2.1, OIDC, SAML, and identity threat models, including secure implementation at scale
- Familiarity with Kubernetes is a bonus
- TypeScript/React experience is a bonus
- Experience with OpenFGA and KiFederate IDP is a bonus
- Experience in security-critical environments, open source contribution or maintenance, and observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry are bonuses
Benefits
- 100% remote work arrangement for eligible candidates in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland, and Sweden
- Equity and bonus eligibility where applicable
- In-person onboarding
- 30 days of annual leave per year, including 3 Grafana Shutdown Days
- Career growth pathways and a global collaborative culture
Tech Stack
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.