Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

Staff Backend Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases

This is a remote position. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack.

The Databases department owns and operates the telemetry databases that are Mimir for metrics , Loki for logs , Tempo for traces , and Pyroscope for profiles . We offer our databases as a Cloud service supporting Grafana Cloud.

The Adaptive Telemetry group, part of the Databases department, has the mission of ensuring that all telemetry stored in our databases is worthy of attention. Our Adaptive Telemetry solutions give users the ability to control and optimize their telemetry data. These solutions ensure that data storage is optimized based on individual usage patterns, so only the most valuable data is retained.

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.

Drive technical strategy and roadmap. Proactively define the architectural vision, prioritize work that unlocks major product or platform improvements,



and influence product and engineering decisions.

Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects. Own planning, design, execution, rollout and long-term operation of large initiatives.

Own architecture, reliability, performance and cost for critical systems. Champion telemetry, alerting, runbooks, capacity planning and automation efforts that reduce toil, speed debugging and lower MTTR.

Coach senior and mid-level engineers, lead design reviews, raise engineering standards, and help teammates make sound technical tradeoffs.

Communicate technical strategy clearly to non-engineering stakeholders and represent the team in cross-team planning.

You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always with strong code review and quality standards. You are customer focused. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs

Experience shipping and operating complex systems that span multiple teams, with clear evidence of technical leadership and impact.

Solid experience with cloud-native architectures (microservices, containers/Kubernetes, IaC) and the operational practices that keep them healthy.

Reliability and performance ownership. Comfortable defining SLOs/SLIs, doing capacity planning, tuning performance, and driving reliability work end-to-end.

Excellent coding and design skills. You write clear, maintainable, well-tested code and can lead technical designs — we use Go, but Python/C/C++/Rust or similar translate well.

Comfort with AI-assisted development.



We embrace AI and agentic development so we expect you to be curious and comfortable using AI-powered developer tools and ideally have practical experience folding them into a team’s workflow.

Ability to align cross-functional stakeholders, set priorities and drive outcomes in a remote-first setting.

Clear written and verbal communication that works across engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

In Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD 186,368 - CAD 223,642 . Perks include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here . Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.

- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. We will comply with local legislation where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a robust organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.

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📌 Lead/Staff Software Engineer - REMOTE (Canada)
🏢 Grafana Labs
📍 Canada