# Staff Software Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases | USA | Remote

Hiring organization: [Grafana Labs](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/grafana-labs)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/e67db0e8-25bb-4920-9a0c-86a6802d5bf0

Listed on Grafana Labs's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: United States (Remote)
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 174986 – 209983 USD per year

## Summary

This Staff-level backend engineering role focuses on building and operating the core database systems (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) that power Grafana Cloud's observability platform, with emphasis on adaptive telemetry features that optimize data storage. The ideal candidate has deep experience shipping large distributed systems, strong cloud-native architecture skills, and can drive technical strategy while mentoring other engineers in a remote-first environment.

_Our summary, not Grafana Labs's wording._

## Skills named

Apache Kafka, C++, Go, Grafana, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Microservices, Prometheus, Python, Rust

## Required

- Proven track record shipping and operating large distributed systems across multiple teams
- Deep understanding of systems design tradeoffs including latency, consistency, availability, scaling and cost
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures including microservices, containers, and Kubernetes
- Experience defining SLOs/SLIs, capacity planning, and driving reliability work end-to-end
- Strong coding and technical design skills with ability to write maintainable, well-tested code
- Experience with streaming/messaging systems like Kafka and observability platforms like Prometheus or Grafana
- Ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders in a remote environment
- Clear communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

## Nice to have

- Experience with adaptive telemetry or similar optimization systems
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools in a team setting
- Familiarity with Go as a primary language

Apply on Grafana Labs's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/6108384004