Senior Software Engineer - Observability Real User Monitoring (RUM) | Canada | Remote

ABOUT THE ROLE Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company with a global collaborative culture, founded on the principles of open source, open standards, and open ecosystems. We're scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: innovation, transparency, autonomy, and trust. Our team thrives in an environment where meaningful work, open standards, and great developer experience drive everything we do. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a fullstack engineer on our Grafana Observability team, you'll be building end-to-end observability that spans application, infrastructure, database, browser, and mobile. Your focus will be on Real User Monitoring (RUM), capturing, storing, and querying high-volume user interaction data from browsers and mobile devices. You'll design and implement systems that ingest, store, and query high-cardinality, high-volume telemetry data using columnar/analytical databases. Your work will be tightly integrated with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud, with a strong emphasis on performance, cost-efficiency, and developer experience. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be a great fit for this role, you'll need: - 5+ years of fullstack engineering experience with strong backend fundamentals - Backend experience in Go and frontend experience in TypeScript and React - Experience building or operating distributed systems in production, such as Kafka, WarpStream, ClickHouse, Cassandra, and Postgres - Familiarity with cloud-native systems, including Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and Azure - Experience working with high-throughput, high-cardinality data, such as logs, metrics, traces, and events - Strong understanding of data modeling, query optimization, and performance tradeoffs - Experience designing and building APIs and distributed services - Experience building data-heavy UIs, such as dashboards, query tools, and debugging interfaces - Familiarity with observability concepts, including traces, logs, metrics, and OpenTelemetry WHY REMOTE As a 100% remote company, we value flexibility and autonomy. Our team members work from anywhere in the US and Canada, with the support of a global collaborative culture. We invest heavily in developer productivity, providing access to modern AI coding assistants and a company-funded usage budget. BENEFITS - Competitive salary - Comprehensive benefits package - Access to modern AI coding assistants and a company-funded usage budget - Opportunity to work on a cutting-edge observability platform - Collaborative and innovative work environment - Flexible work arrangements in a 100% remote company