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Senior Software Engineer, Grafana OSS Big Tent | Canada | Remote
Canada (Remote) 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 Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo). 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.
Senior Backend Engineer, Grafana OSS Big Tent
This is a remote opportunity and we would be interested in applications from the EST in Canada. The Opportunity: As a Senior Software Engineer in the OSS Big Tent squad, you will take a leading role in developing and enhancing a diverse portfolio of open source plugins that retrieve the data powering Grafana dashboards used by teams worldwide. Our team focuses on building new open source data source plugins, continuously improving existing ones and ensuring seamless customer experiences. A key aspect of this role is guaranteeing the smooth operation and reliability of our plugins in the Grafana Cloud, helping us deliver on our commitment to world-class observability tools. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. You'll have the opportunity to work across the Data Sources team and partner with other squads within the Grafana division to drive innovation and solve complex engineering challenges. As we continue on a growth trajectory, we are constantly evolving our ways of working to ensure they are scalable and adaptable to the needs of our team and users. What You’ll Be Doing:
- Some data source plugins we own:
- Prometheus, Loki, Infinity, MySQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Zabbix, Github, Google Sheets, Zipkin, CSV and MQTT
- A typical “day in the life” could include:
- Building Grafana plugins to integrate third party services or databases into Grafana
- Innovating our plugin system to allow for enhanced capabilities
- Supporting the operations and reliability of our plugins in Grafana Cloud
- Coming up with suggestions for process improvements
- Providing technical support in customer escalations
- Working closely with the rest of the Grafana Division
What Makes You a Great Fit:
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind and respectful. We value autonomy and enabling decisions over committees and red tape. We are a distributed team, working remotely... [truncated for brevity]
Grafana Labs is dedicated to uniting data from disparate systems across geographies, platforms, and servers to empower users to analyze, take action, and make smart decisions. The company values open sharing, respect and empowerment, open source software (OSS) DNA, commitment keeping, seeking diverse perspectives, iterative progress over perfection, and mutual support. Grafana Labs builds open source observability software tools and offers AI-powered observability products such as Grafana Cloud. The company emphasizes a remote-first work culture with a distributed team across 40+ countries.
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