Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Integrations

This role is available for candidates located in Germany.

The Opportunity:

The Grafana Cloud 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.

In this role, you will be part of the team that develops our portfolio of integrations that allow customers to collect and visualize metrics from various systems and applications. 

The software you will create is a core building block for the users of Grafana Cloud, and contributes significantly to our user value. Our work is built on Open Source technologies, which you will also actively contribute to.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You will bring your software engineering expertise to develop and maintain the tooling that powers our portfolio of cloud integrations and observability apps; working to develop, maintain and scale our infrastructure observability features in Grafana Cloud.

• Develop and maintain features as part of Observability solutions in Grafana Cloud. 

• Contribute to the design and implementation of high-quality, scalable integrations for various infrastructure components, databases, and applications

• Build prototypes and present your ideas as part of a cross-functional team

• Stay up to date with the latest cloud native technologies and development methodologies

• Represent Grafana Labs in meetups, and conferences and social media forums

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Experience working in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or related disciplines and experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well

• Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in an autonomous, self-driven manner

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to work as part of a cross-functional team and quickly gather and build your knowledge

• Proficient written and verbal communication skills in English

Bonus Points For:

• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)

• Experience contributing to or maintaining Open Source projects

• Experience working with with cloud computing technologies

What you’ll bring to the role

At Grafana Labs, we define senior roles via the scope of their business impact more than via their expertise or their specific activities. 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 would like to become an active member of various Open Source communities, including OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.

• You’re curious and you enjoy learning new programming languages and frameworks, setting up examples, and figuring out how things work.

• You actively mentor other team members, identifying areas for focus and improvement.

In Germany, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 73,000 - EUR 92,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.