Staff Backend Engineer - Grafana Partner Datasources

This is a full-time remote position. We are looking for candidates in the Canadian Eastern time zones.

Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates visualizations on metrics, logs and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open-source observability software without the overhead of installing, maintaining, and scaling their own observability stack.

The Grafana team within engineering is responsible for Grafana, the highly successful open-source project with over a million instances running in the wild as well as our Enterprise-ready Grafana Enterprise offering. Grafana is also the main frontend for Grafana Cloud where users can visualize their telemetry data as well as use our opinionated solutions for easier troubleshooting of both their infrastructure and their applications. As our SaaS business continues to grow, we've started to change Grafana's core architecture with the goal to be fully multi-tenant and scalable, as well as a solid platform for our opinionated Cloud apps.

As a Staff Backend Engineer in the Partner Data Sources squad you will play a vital role in the development of data sources: plugins that provide visual query editors and the underlying mechanics to query and transform observability data for use in Grafana. The data sources owned by the Partner Data Sources squad are built in close partnership with the cloud service providers and independent software vendors responsible for the services these connect to.

Our group’s mission is to ensure that, through this work, as many users as possible are able to see the value of Grafana as quickly as possible by connecting to their data wherever it lives. We achieve this at scale, owning the deployment and operations of these data sources and supporting infrastructure on Grafana Cloud. As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a new perspective to the software.

We are looking for teammates with the following skills

• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key. We are a distributed team (Western Europe to Eastern Americas), working remotely on a product that will be used by engineers all over the world – the ability to work on your own, and ship working code is crucial.

• You are comfortable mentoring other team members, participating in design discussions and otherwise collaborating with the team while being friendly, kind, and respectful.

• You are comfortable managing external stakeholder relationships, as well as balancing internal and external priorities. You are comfortable providing a technical perspective in calls with external partners.

• You have professional experience working with Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud.

• You have professional experience with Golang or a comparable programming language, and are comfortable working in both backend and frontend code.

• You have experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.

• You value DevOps principles and design for your own team’s operations.

• You have an active interest in the domain of software observability.

What we use

• Microsoft Azure

• Google Cloud

• Kubernetes

• We use Golang for backend code

• We use React and Typescript for frontend code

• We use Playwright for testing

What we work on

• You can see a sample of our work in the repos for Azure Data Explorer, Azure Monitor, SQL Server, Google Cloud Monitor, SurrealDB, and Clickhouse.

• There are four additional data sources squads and we collaborate regularly on shared challenges like making it easier to build and maintain data sources, security vulnerability management, and improving operational observability and tooling.

• We meet and collaborate regularly with cloud service providers and independent software vendors to align roadmaps and provide code review.

• We provide technical assistance in customer support escalations involving our data sources.

In Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD 146,409 - CAD 175,691.  Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here. Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

*Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.