Principal Software Developer – Backend
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Backend Engineer, Observability – Ingest
Grafana Labs
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$120,000 - CA$151,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
CloudGoGrafanaOpen SourcePythonRust
About the role
- Collaborate with your team to deliver new features, analyze outcomes, and make improvements.
- Lead projects from concept to implementation, including ongoing customer support.
- Become an active contributor of open source projects like Grafana Alloy and the OpenTelemetry Collector.
- Design, build, operate, and maintain essential systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and availability.
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives.
- Participate in on-call rotations and take responsibility for the services you oversee.
- Support and mentor team members, engage in design conversations, and work closely with colleagues.
- Expand your skill set by deepening your knowledge of our cloud products, understanding our customers, and learning about our codebase.
Requirements
- Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well.
- Experience with delivering projects, from gathering requirements, brain-storming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way.
- Experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering.
- Experience with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code.
Benefits
- 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.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- 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.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
GoPythonCC++Rustcloud computingsystems engineeringinfrastructure as codesoftware developmentproject delivery
Soft skills
collaborationleadershipmentoringcustomer supportdesign discussionsself-driveninfluencingengagementcommunicationproblem-solving
