Grafana Labs

3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer - Platform, SysEng

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Job Summary

Build and operate the Platform SysEng squad that accelerates the maturity and scalability of Grafana Cloud’s internal engineering platform. Own reliability and performance for large distributed systems, defining SLOs/SLIs and capacity planning while improving new region build timelines. You’ll collaborate in a remote-first, highly distributed environment, contribute across the full code lifecycle (design docs through integration testing), and help internal teams ship workloads on Kubernetes-based infrastructure.

Location: Canada

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Work in the Platform SysEng squad to improve platform maturity, scalability, and new region build timelines.
•Build and operate a highly available, low-latency platform stack supporting Grafana Cloud’s dashboards and alerting.
•Collaborate across engineering as part of an accelerated, cross-cutting team in a remote-first environment.
•Own the full lifecycle of platform code, including design docs, developer feedback, integration testing, and quality standards.
•Drive reliability and performance by defining SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning, and tuning across production services (including on-call rotations).

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 186,368 - 223,642

Perks:EquityAnnual BonusPaid Leave

Key Requirements

•Proven delivery of large distributed systems, including shipping and operating complex systems across multiple teams with evidence of technical leadership and impact.
•Demonstrable system design experience, including deep understanding of tradeoffs around latency, consistency, availability, scaling, and cost.
•Hands-on cloud and platform experience with cloud-native architectures such as microservices, containers/Kubernetes, and IaC, plus operational practices to keep systems healthy.
•Reliability and performance ownership, including defining SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning, performance tuning, and driving reliability work end-to-end.
•Excellent coding and design skills; you write clear, maintainable, well-tested code and can lead technical designs (Go preferred; Python/C/C++/Rust or similar translate).

Experience:Open sourceCloud-nativeDistributed systems

Skills:Remote collaborationTechnical leadershipCross-functional alignmentCommunicationProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:GoPythonShellKubernetesMicroservicesContainersIaCTerraformCrossplaneTankaJsonnetGPT-Codex 5/3Claude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 ProAI coding assistantsAgentic development

Company Brief

Grafana Labs

Develops open-source and commercial observability tools, including Grafana for metrics visualization, Loki for log aggregation, and Tempo for tracing, enabling organizations to monitor, analyze, and visualize system performance and telemetry data.

Industry: Developer Tools

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)

Funding: Series D

Headquarters: New York, United States

Founded: 2014

Website LinkedIn

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Grafana Labs

3 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer - Platform, SysEng

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 8 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Canada

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Work in the Platform SysEng squad to improve platform maturity, scalability, and new region build timelines.
•Build and operate a highly available, low-latency platform stack supporting Grafana Cloud’s dashboards and alerting.
•Collaborate across engineering as part of an accelerated, cross-cutting team in a remote-first environment.
•Own the full lifecycle of platform code, including design docs, developer feedback, integration testing, and quality standards.
•Drive reliability and performance by defining SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning, and tuning across production services (including on-call rotations).

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 186,368 - 223,642

Perks:EquityAnnual BonusPaid Leave

Key Requirements

•Proven delivery of large distributed systems, including shipping and operating complex systems across multiple teams with evidence of technical leadership and impact.
•Demonstrable system design experience, including deep understanding of tradeoffs around latency, consistency, availability, scaling, and cost.
•Hands-on cloud and platform experience with cloud-native architectures such as microservices, containers/Kubernetes, and IaC, plus operational practices to keep systems healthy.
•Reliability and performance ownership, including defining SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning, performance tuning, and driving reliability work end-to-end.
•Excellent coding and design skills; you write clear, maintainable, well-tested code and can lead technical designs (Go preferred; Python/C/C++/Rust or similar translate).

Experience:Open sourceCloud-nativeDistributed systems

Skills:Remote collaborationTechnical leadershipCross-functional alignmentCommunicationProblem-solving

Languages:English

Tech Stack:GoPythonShellKubernetesMicroservicesContainersIaCTerraformCrossplaneTankaJsonnetGPT-Codex 5/3Claude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 ProAI coding assistantsAgentic development

Company Brief

Grafana Labs

Industry: Developer Tools

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)

Funding: Series D

Headquarters: New York, United States

Founded: 2014

Website LinkedIn