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Europe 6w PTO

  • Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives on Tempo, including trace aggregation APIs and autoscaling.
  • Own the architecture of core Tempo components: ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation.
  • Drive operational excellence through SLOs, automation, and incident response.

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Canada 6w PTO

  • Drive technical strategy and roadmap for adaptive telemetry systems.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects.
  • Mentor and grow engineering talent across the organization.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, founded on open source and open culture. Today, it has over 35 million users and 7,000+ customers, with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries.

UK

  • Design, build, and scale backend services powering a large-scale observability platform, including telemetry ingestion, storage systems, query engines, and alerting pipelines.
  • Develop and optimize distributed systems that process logs, metrics, and traces at high volume with a strong focus on reliability and performance.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to improve system architecture, scalability, and developer experience.

Germany 6w PTO

  • Own and operate 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure in production.
  • Diagnose and eliminate cross-layer failure modes such as object storage latency, noisy neighbors, and query performance regressions.
  • Design safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale, improving observability, automation, and operational ergonomics.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, providing a fully managed observability platform built for scale. With over 35 million users and 7,000+ customers, we are a 100% remote company of 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Design and implement high-quality, scalable integrations for observability solutions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features aligned with product strategy.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to open-source communities.

Grafana Labs provides an open-source observability platform, Grafana Cloud, that integrates metrics, logs, and traces. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, they maintain a remote-first, collaborative culture backed by leading investors.

UK 6w PTO

  • Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and career objectives while working with the team to deliver new features.
  • Drive projects from initial ideation to operations, designing and maintaining critical systems with a focus on reliability and performance.
  • Embrace open-source culture, mentor team members, and participate in design discussions in a remote-first setting.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, providing a fully managed observability platform built on open source principles. With over 35 million users and 7,000+ customers including Anthropic and Bloomberg, the company has 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries and fosters a global collaborative culture.

UK Germany Spain Ireland Sweden 6w PTO

  • Work with your team to deliver new functionality, then use results to iterate and improve.
  • Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your career objectives.
  • Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions, and collaborate with the team.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, Grafana Cloud, built on open-source principles. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, we foster a global collaborative culture backed by leading investors.

Europe 6w PTO

  • Define and own the technical architecture for the Identity squad’s authentication systems, including edge authentication redesign.
  • Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, multi-quarter initiatives spanning multiple services and teams.
  • Mentor and develop senior engineers, providing technical guidance and support for their professional growth.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, providing a fully managed platform for monitoring and analyzing data. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, we are a 100% remote company fostering a collaborative, open-source culture.

$200,000–$250,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead technical conversations with developers and architects to understand systems and business objectives.
  • Build tailored demos and proof-of-concepts that showcase Temporal's solutions for customer problems.
  • Deliver enablement sessions and create reusable technical assets to accelerate the sales cycle.

Temporal is an open source programming model that simplifies code and makes applications more reliable. It is a growing, values-driven team with a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and humility.

Germany 6w PTO

  • Anticipate and support the Solutions Engineering team by designing technical presentations, demos, and white papers.
  • Create and deliver training materials, product workshops, and webinars for internal teams and customers.
  • Partner with Product, Marketing, and Engineering to enable the field with deep technical expertise and strategic support.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open-source observability platform, providing a fully managed cloud service for monitoring and analytics. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, they foster a global collaborative culture rooted in open source, transparency, and autonomy.

Global

  • Build data-intensive systems designing high-throughput integrations with databases, data lakes, and warehouses.
  • Own end-to-end reliability by debugging complex issues and improving infrastructure.
  • Drive product innovation by working with customers and collaborating cross-functionally.

ClickHouse is a leading real-time analytics company recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list. With over 3,000 customers and rapid growth, they provide a platform for data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.

UK Sweden Spain Germany Ireland 6w PTO

  • Partner with product engineering squads to own production reliability for high-SLA customer environments, designing automation and defining per-tenant SLOs.
  • Serve as a primary escalation point for incidents, leading response, post-incident reviews, and reducing SLO burn to prevent repeats.
  • Influence feature design for scalability and operability, improve alert quality, and eliminate toil through automation.

Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, providing a fully managed observability platform for organizations to see, understand, and act on their data. With over 35 million users, 7,000+ customers, and 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, we foster a remote, collaborative culture rooted in open-source values.

India Unlimited PTO

  • Architect how GitLab and third-party data is ingested, modeled, and synchronized into the Knowledge Graph as a near-real-time graph of the development ecosystem.
  • Design the Data Marketplace so customers can consume GitLab data through Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery without engineering handoffs.
  • Mentor senior and intermediate engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and reduce security and compliance risk. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

Global

  • Define and lead the end-to-end observability strategy covering logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
  • Architect and evolve a unified observability platform ensuring scalability and reliability.
  • Build and lead a high-performing observability engineering team with strong technical standards.

The company operates a high-scale developer-facing platform focused on reliability and performance. It is a remote-first organization with a globally distributed engineering team committed to building best-in-class developer infrastructure.

UK

  • Lead the design, development and operation of large-scale, secure observability systems to keep services online and performant.
  • Deploy and scale Prometheus, ElasticSearch clusters, and high-throughput Kafka data pipelines for millions of customer devices.
  • Collaborate with the Observability team to build alerting systems, APIs, and self-service monitoring tools using Terraform and multiple languages.

ItD is a new generation consulting and software development company that blends diversity, innovation, and integrity with real business results. It is a woman- and minority-led firm with a global community, empowering employees and offering benefits like medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and career development.