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Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.\nWe’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. 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We thrive on collective creativity and diverse perspectives, every team member is encouraged to contribute ideas that shape our product into a dependable tool.\nOur domain is quite large, so to get an idea of the kind of work we do, here are some projects we recently worked on:\nBuild distributed systems to scale alert ingestion and delivery of Prometheus-based alerts\nUnify Alerting setup and delivery to work the same for Grafana and Prometheus-based alerts\nBuild distributed systems to scale alert evaluation of Grafana-managed alerts, reaching over 500 evaluations per second in production.\nGrafana Alerting is trusted by major organizations worldwide, monitoring essential medical devices and critical infrastructure. We thrive on collective creativity and diverse perspectives, every team member is encouraged to contribute ideas that shape our product into a dependable tool.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing:\nTake an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives \nWork with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.\nDrive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers\nEmbrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope\nDesign, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability\nBe a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running\nMentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team\nLearn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system\nAs 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.\nWhat Makes You a Great Fit:\nYou are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action\nYou are customer focused\nWe build everything with our users in mind.\nYou have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs \nPragmatism: 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\nCollaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must\nSolid 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\nSome 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\nSome experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering\nExperience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others\nCompensation & Rewards:\nIn Spain, the compensation range for this role is EUR 97,000 - EUR 121,000. 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.\n*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.\nWhy You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:\n100% 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.\nScaling Organization - Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.\nTransparent Communication - Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.\nInnovation-Driven - Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.\nOpen Source Roots - Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.\nEmpowered Teams - High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.\nCareer Growth Pathways - Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.\nApproachable Leadership - Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.\nPassionate People - Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.\nIn-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it. \nBalance 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.\nEqual Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. 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