Grafana Labs
Staff Software Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases | USA | Remote
$175K–$210K
United States (Remote) +2 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 2, 2026
- Location
- United States (Remote)
Canada (Remote)
USA (Remote)
About the job
Lead technical strategy and delivery for Adaptive Telemetry systems that optimize telemetry data stored in Grafana Cloud databases.
What you'll do
- Set architectural direction and lead large cross-functional projects from planning through operation.
- Own architecture, reliability, performance, and cost for critical systems; define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response.
- Align stakeholders, mentor engineers, and improve observability, automation, and operational readiness.
What they ask for
- Proven delivery and operation of large distributed systems, with technical leadership and impact.
- Strong systems-design skills and experience with cloud-native architectures and operational practices.
- Ability to own reliability and performance, including SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning, and tuning.
- Strong coding and design skills; experience with Go or transferable languages, plus communication and cross-functional influence.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with streaming/messaging systems such as Kafka and observability tools such as Prometheus/Grafana or equivalents.
- Practical experience using AI-powered developer tools in a team workflow.
Pay
USD 174,986 - USD 209,983 (base salary)
Tools
Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, Kubernetes, Kafka, Prometheus/Grafana
AI focus
Uses AI coding assistants and agentic development tools in the engineering workflow, including prototyping, test generation, refactoring, documentation, and incident follow-ups.
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