Software Engineer - Identity and Access
This is a remote opportunity and we are looking for candidates based in the UK, Germany, Sweden or Spain.
The Opportunity:
Millions of users sign in to Grafana every day to keep their software, factories, and space shuttles healthy and performant. We make sure they can do so as easily as possible, and we help admins sleep well at night knowing that their users have access to just the right data and functionality.
As the Identity and Access team we are responsible for everything related to authorization and authentication in Grafana. Our daily work often spans both open source and proprietary code. Our next challenges revolve around streamlining and scaling the authentication and authorization experience in Grafana, while maintaining our existing functionality, as well as supporting the community & customers.
In this role you'll work on the development of the next generation of Grafana's authentication and authorization systems, responsible for authorizing millions of users every day.
What You’ll Be Doing:
You will work alongside your teammates to develop and maintain our authentication and authorization stack, which is largely built on open source tooling. We actively implement cutting-edge authentication and authorization protocols and systems, based on MCP OAuth (OAuth 2.1) and OpenFGA (Zanzibar), rather than relying on off-the-shelf components.
Approximately 60% of your time will be dedicated to backend development (Golang), 30% to operations, and 10% to frontend adjustments
Develop and maintain features for Grafana Cloud's internal and customer-facing authorization stack
Contribute to the design and implementation of long horizon, scalable systems in the critical path of user interaction
Build prototypes and present your ideas as part of a cross-functional team
Stay up to date with the latest changes in Authorization and Authentication
Grow to represent Grafana Labs in meetups and conferences
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
Experience with Go or Rust
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:
Experience working with OpenFGA
Experience working in security critical environments
Experience contributing to or maintaining Open Source projects
Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
What you’ll bring to the role
At Grafana Labs, we expect you to be comfortable working in a remote-first culture; communication is key. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We operate by consensus, you are expected to contribute to a discussion, and commit to the team's decision.
Bring your eagerness to learn and grow. The team and scope of work is dynamic, bringing excellent opportunity for furthering your skillset
You enjoy working on complex solutions. The Cloud Integrations team develops and maintains over a hundred integrations with third party software. We care deeply about evolving and improving processes for both ourselves and our customers
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.
In Spain, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 63,000 - EUR 79,000. 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.
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Software Engineer - Identity and Access
This is a remote opportunity and we are looking for candidates based in the UK, Germany, Sweden or Spain.
The Opportunity:
Millions of users sign in to Grafana every day to keep their software, factories, and space shuttles healthy and performant. We make sure they can do so as easily as possible, and we help admins sleep well at night knowing that their users have access to just the right data and functionality.
As the Identity and Access team we are responsible for everything related to authorization and authentication in Grafana. Our daily work often spans both open source and proprietary code. Our next challenges revolve around streamlining and scaling the authentication and authorization experience in Grafana, while maintaining our existing functionality, as well as supporting the community & customers.
In this role you'll work on the development of the next generation of Grafana's authentication and authorization systems, responsible for authorizing millions of users every day.
What You’ll Be Doing:
You will work alongside your teammates to develop and maintain our authentication and authorization stack, which is largely built on open source tooling. We actively implement cutting-edge authentication and authorization protocols and systems, based on MCP OAuth (OAuth 2.1) and OpenFGA (Zanzibar), rather than relying on off-the-shelf components.
Approximately 60% of your time will be dedicated to backend development (Golang), 30% to operations, and 10% to frontend adjustments
Develop and maintain features for Grafana Cloud's internal and customer-facing authorization stack
Contribute to the design and implementation of long horizon, scalable systems in the critical path of user interaction
Build prototypes and present your ideas as part of a cross-functional team
Stay up to date with the latest changes in Authorization and Authentication
Grow to represent Grafana Labs in meetups and conferences
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
Experience with Go or Rust
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:
Experience working with OpenFGA
Experience working in security critical environments
Experience contributing to or maintaining Open Source projects
Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
What you’ll bring to the role
At Grafana Labs, we expect you to be comfortable working in a remote-first culture; communication is key. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We operate by consensus, you are expected to contribute to a discussion, and commit to the team's decision.
Bring your eagerness to learn and grow. The team and scope of work is dynamic, bringing excellent opportunity for furthering your skillset
You enjoy working on complex solutions. The Cloud Integrations team develops and maintains over a hundred integrations with third party software. We care deeply about evolving and improving processes for both ourselves and our customers
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.
In Spain, the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 63,000 - EUR 79,000. 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.