Principal Backend Engineer, Grafana Labs
Grafana Alloy OpenTelemetry Collector
CA$188-225k
+ Equity
Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
Open for applications
Organization monitoring, visualization and observability platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$188-225k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unite data, no matter where it lives, and empower its users to analyze, take action, and make smart decisions.
Role
Who you are
- At Grafana Labs, we define senior roles via the scope of their business impact more than via their expertise or their specific activities. So the most important thing we are looking for in a principal engineer is the ability to take ownership, and drive both technical and business conversations on a director-level scope
- You have a passion for observability and like to share your knowledge by writing documentation and blog posts
- You love to engage with customers and help them out
- You have excellent communication skills
- You have relevant open source experience, ideally in OpenTelemetry or Prometheus
- You are willing to become an active member of the OpenTelemetry community
- You have a good understanding of production environments. Ideally you have been responsible for operating production infrastructure and services, and organizing on-call
- You actively mentor other team members, identifying areas for focus and improvement
What the job involves
- Grafana Alloy is an open-source OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles
- The Alloy team collaborates with the upstream OpenTelemetry collector community on components we include in our distribution. We also cover use cases that are out-of-scope for OpenTelemetry, like the integration of Prometheus exporters
- We are looking for Engineers that are passionate about communicating with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team! Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities
- Principal software engineer is a leadership role for ICs. You are expected to have director-level scope, but with technical depth
- Support and lead the technical direction of the Alloy project, and drive business conversations on the data ingestion strategy at Grafana Labs
- Be an active member of the OpenTelemetry collector SIG. Alloy shares a lot of components with the upstream OpenTelemetry collector project. We want to help make OpenTelemetry a success, and be active members of the OpenTelemetry collector SIG. You will lead this effort by example, and encourage others to do the same
- Be familiar with the Prometheus ecosystem and help maintain the Prometheus exporters included in Alloy
- Be visible. Teach others, promote best practices, share knowledge, establish the relation of Alloy within the Prometheus and the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. Both within Grafana Labs and at community events like KubeCon
- Support and partner with GTM (go-to-market). Engage and lead conversations with prospects and customers, when product expertise is needed, involving solutions engineering, customer success, and professional services
- Drive cross-department programs to ensure Alloy-ingested data meets the needs of our databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo) and applications built on top of these databases
- On-call. You participate in on-call rotations for our deployments of Alloy and drive operational improvements
Our take
Observability plays a crucial role in software development, where dashboards are pivotal for monitoring the health of IT infrastructure across an organization. However, for developers, the frustration of spending unnecessary time navigating between different dashboards to find the latest information detracts from valuable programming time.
Grafana collaborates closely with its clients to create customizable observability platforms, striving to enhance efficiency in observability. Its offerings include cloud-based data structures, dashboards, API plugins, and collaboration tools. Currently, FGrafana boasts over 21M active instances and approximately 10M users globally, with a customer base exceeding 2,000, including prominent names like Bloomberg, PJ Morgan Chase, eBay, PayPal, and Sony.
While Grafana provides free plans with a simplified tool package, the Grafana Enterprise Stack offers customized observability solutions on a monthly subscription basis. The company's ongoing strategy revolves around continually improving Grafana to meet users' demands, enhancing functionality with each iteration, and fostering community engagement by enabling users to share their Grafana dashboards with the broader open-source community.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2024
$270m
SERIES D
Apr 2022
$240m
SERIES D
Total funding: $805.2m
Company benefits
- Vacation: Balance is key. Our team enjoys 30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. We also take a breather on a number of Grafana Shutdown Days each year
- Healthcare: We’re proud to provide health coverage or stipends for our colleagues in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, and India
- Retirement planning: There’s no time like the present to start saving for your future. We make employer contributions into the pension pots of our team members in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany
- Professional development: On top of a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend, Grafanistas have thousands of on-demand courses at their fingertips to help them grow professionally. Want to attend a conference or training? Go ahead. Just pass on what you learned
- Work location: Vast majority of our roles are fully remote, focused on hiring the best talent and allowing you to perform from the comfort of your home. If you fancy a change of scene, we’ll also reimburse you up to $175 a month for a personal co-working space
- Choice of tech: There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to the tech required to do your job. Choose the laptop and accessories you need when you join us, and we’ll refresh them every three years
- Mindfulness: When you join the team, you can sign up for a complimentary subscription to Headspace to take advantage of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation. Our wellbeing resource group also organize sessions run by fellow Grafanistas or external trainers
- Fond Perks: Grafanistas across the world receive access to Fond, a platform that provides access to pre-negotiated discounts on a wide variety of services including entertainment, food, and fitness
- Global Employee Assistance Program: We offer all team members a 100% confidential support service with 24/7 365 access to professionally qualified counsellors and specialists
Company values
- Share openly and default to transparency
- Respectfully empowered
- OSS is in our DNA
- We keep our commitments
- Seek diverse perspectives
- Don't let perfect get in the way
- Help each other thrive
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
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Founders
Raj Dutt
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently a Board Member at NSONE. Previously founded Voxel where they served as the CEO for 12 years. They also served as the Senior Vice President of Technology at Internap Network Services.
Torkel Ödegaard
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Mälardalen University with a Master's in Computer Science. Founder of Coding Instinct. Previously worked as a Consultant at H&M, Avega, and Ebay.
Anthony Wood
(Co-Founder)Previously worked at Visa and Voxel as a Senior Systems Engineer. They also have Systems Engineering axperience at PalVision and iiNet.
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