Grafana Labs is the company behind the open observability cloud, founded on principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Their fully managed observability platform, Grafana Cloud, is built for scale and used by over 35 million users and 7,000+ customers. Grafana Labs is a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors. They emphasize an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and an innovation-driven environment with transparency, autonomy, and trust.

About the Position

Introduction

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Identity and Access team, specifically within the Identity Squads. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the technical direction of authentication infrastructure at scale, impacting millions of users daily. We are a 100% remote company with a global collaborative culture and a strong open-source legacy.

Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer on the Identity squad, you will:

Set the technical direction for our authentication systems and lead complex initiatives from conception through delivery.
Collaborate closely with engineering leadership, product management, and cross-functional partners to define how Grafana authenticates millions of users daily.
Dedicate approximately 55% of your time to backend development (Golang), 25% to technical leadership and cross-team collaboration, and 20% to operations and reliability.
Define and own the technical architecture for the Identity squad's authentication systems, including our edge authentication redesign.
Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, multi-quarter initiatives in the critical path of user interaction, spanning multiple services and teams.
Mentor and develop senior engineers, providing technical guidance, design feedback, and support for their professional growth.
Serve as a technical authority for identity protocols at Grafana, driving alignment on how we implement and evolve OAuth, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and SCIM across the organization.
Drive cross-team technical alignment on authentication standards, patterns, and best practices across Grafana's engineering organization.
Represent Grafana Labs at meetups and conferences, and contribute to the broader identity and authentication community.

Requirements

Deep, proven expertise in distributed systems engineering with Go, with a track record of owning and delivering large-scale production systems end-to-end.
Demonstrated ability to define technical direction and drive architectural decisions independently, with impact that extends beyond your immediate team.
Extensive experience building and operating low-latency, high-throughput services in a distributed environment.