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

- Company: Grafana
- What the company does: Avoid lock-in and ensure reliability with Grafana Cloud. The AI-powered platform built on open standards unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and Sapphire.
- Company website: https://grafana.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States (Remote)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/6108384004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/grafana-staff-software-engineer-adaptive-telemetry-databases-usa-remote/

## About the role

You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. The Databases department owns and operates the telemetry databases that are Mimir for metrics , Loki for logs , Tempo for traces , and Pyroscope for profiles . We offer our databases as a Cloud service supporting Grafana Cloud.

## What they're looking for

- Drive technical strategy and roadmap. Proactively define the architectural vision, prioritize work that unlocks major product or platform improvements, and influence product and engineering decisions
- Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional projects. Own planning, design, execution, rollout and long-term operation of large initiatives
- Define SLOs/SLIs and lead incident response. Establish measurable reliability targets, run high-severity incident response, lead blameless post-mortems, and drive systemic fixes and automation to prevent recurrence
- Improve observability, automation and operational readiness. Champion telemetry, alerting, runbooks, capacity planning and automation efforts that reduce toil, speed debugging and lower MTTR
- Align stakeholders and remove blockers. Coordinate across Product, Design and other teams to align priorities, negotiate tradeoffs, and unblock delivery for large initiatives
- Mentor and grow engineering talent. Coach senior and mid-level engineers, lead design reviews, raise engineering standards, and help teammates make sound technical tradeoffs

Tags: R&D : Databases