At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and maintain scalable alert systems for a leading observability platform.
- Company: Join Grafana Labs, a remote-first tech company with a strong open-source culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, RSUs, 30 days annual leave, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team that values innovation, autonomy, and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on critical systems used by major organisations worldwide.
- Qualifications: Experience in software development and cloud systems; familiarity with programming languages like Go, Python, or Java.
The predicted salary is between 91755 - 110106 £ per year.
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re 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. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
The Grafana Alerting squad operates at the core of the Grafana open-source project, and our mission is to provide the most in-depth way to let users manage their alerts. Our domain is quite large, so to get an idea of the kind of work we do, here are some projects we recently worked on:
- Build distributed systems to scale alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production.
- Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers.
- Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope.
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability.
As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.
Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively.
The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup.
Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, Java, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well.
Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way.
Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering.
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others.
Compensation & Rewards:
In the UK, the compensation range for this role is GBP 91,755 - GBP 110,106. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.
*Compensation ranges are country specific.
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.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- 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. 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.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.
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