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Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring | Sweden | Remote

AI overview

Contribute to building the Cloud Observability stack, enabling customers to visualize and collect metrics from various systems while promoting a collaborative, open-source culture.

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with or self-managed with the, both featuring scalable metrics (), logs (), and traces ().

We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applicants based in Spain, Germany, the UK or Sweden at this time.

Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring

The Opportunity:

Grafana Cloud is our composable observability platform that integrates metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software

• including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo
• without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack

The 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 builds our Cloud Observability stack that allows customers to collect and visualize metrics from various systems and applications. We build and maintain the backend of opinionated applications such as Cloud Provider Observability, Database Observability, and Kubernetes Monitoring. This includes the dashboards, alerts, documentation, and infrastructure while working closely with other teams to ensure seamless experiences. We also strive to incorporate OSS contributions in our work by contributing to projects such as Alloy, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Beyla. The Observability department provides a core building block for customers using 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 unique perspective to the software. We are looking for Engineers that are passionate about communicating with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team! Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities.

What You’ll Be Doing:

At Grafana Labs, our engineers have a dedicated career path and do not have to become managers to progress in their career. Staff Software Engineers at Grafana have a large amount of experience across multiple areas. They are able to estimate, plan, coordinate and deliver large tasks spanning multiple systems. They actively coach and mentor other team members in their team and are able to identify and resolve issues with technology and product processes.

You will bring your passion for observability and software engineering expertise to help us take our infrastructure monitori