Senior Software Engineer - Grafana Plugin Platform

This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in EMEA time zones.

We're looking for amazing individuals to help us grow and shape the future of the Grafana plugin ecosystem . The Plugins Platform Team is dedicated to making Grafana plugins easy to build and maintain. Our main focus is tooling platform and great documentation for Plugins in the Grafana Ecosystem. We also ensure that our community voice is heard and that we help our teams track and grow their engagement with our broader Grafana community.

Who we’re looking for:

A typical day might involve adding new functionality to our Go SDK talking to our developers about improvements necessary in our platform or tooling or collaborating with our tech writers about adding new documentation to our developer portal .

At Grafana Labs we value diverse perspectives; it's one of our core values . Listed below are qualities we value but it is not an exhaustive list you don’t need to check all the boxes. We welcome individuals of various backgrounds and believe that this diverse mindset makes us stronger.

This role would be a good fit for you if:

• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company and understand the importance of communication.

• You enjoy learning growing and supporting others to do the same.

• You have solid experience as a Senior Software Engineer with a solid experience working with Go . We are happy to consider candidates with other backgrounds and experience.

• You enjoy working as a team . For us working together means being collaborative friendly kind and respectful.

• You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technical solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows.

• You can drive your work independently but you also know when to reach out for help

• You care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on

• You want to participate in on-call rotations for our area of responsibility and drive operational improvements.

• You enjoy being part of the community . Community is part of our core and interacting with the community is a day-to-day thing for us. You are able to communicate the design decisions clearly in written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Experience writing Grafana plugins or working in another plugin development ecosystem

• Experience working with Apache Arrow or similar columnar data serialization libraries

• Experience working with data integration systems

• Experience operating and scaling highly available API services in different cloud providers (GCloud AWS etc.)

• Experience with TypeScript/React ecosystem

In Germany the Base compensation range for this role is EUR 103000 - EUR 124000.  Actual compensation may vary based on level experience and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here .

*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.