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

United States (Remote) · Remote · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal

$174,986 – $209,983

Listed on Grafana Labs’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

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. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

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