Grafana
Senior Solutions Architect | PST USA | Remote
Grafana, Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States, 97458
Senior Solutions Architect PST (Remote, USA)
United States (Remote) Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack , both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir ), logs (Grafana Loki ), and traces (Grafana Tempo ). Were scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and thats okay. If this role excites you, wed love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. We are looking for a Solutions Architect (ProServ) to join our world class Customer Experience (CX) team. Solutions Architects at Grafana Labs provide customers with specialized business and technical consultation, and guidance to achieve their objectives using Grafana. Whats that actually mean? It means our customers:
Have a professional services partner at Grafana that understands their challenges and guides them to solutions through training, roadmapping, and specialized consulting.Have a partner that is not quota/sales-based, and can authentically have their best interest at heart. Have a partner that can share relevant stories and best practices across customers, helping them better achieve their own goals, while delivering a white-glove service engagement for offerings, features, and overall experience. Our SAs need to be hands-on-keyboard. You need to understand the ecosystem of services that our customers use and work with the customer to ensure success with Grafana at the center. Wed expect you to understand why Kubernetes is popular, how it relates to Prometheus, the difference between logs and metrics, the difference between pets and cattle, and more... Our SAs manage the life-cycle of our customers onboarding and adoption of Grafana offerings and features, with a commitment to deliver world-class experiences and time to value. You will be responsible for delivering packaged training, quick-starts, session cataloging, project and roadmap assurance, as well as specialized consulting for high-priority customers with complex technical requirements and resource constraints. This will include being an extra set of hands, hearts, and brains for customers (virtually or on-site). Our SA is responsible for managing the ongoing support to customers to ensure theyre continuing to get value from our commercial products and OSS projects. They will monitor support requests to identify any recurring issues, acting as the voice of the customer, and work with our product teams to recommend changes and improvements to our products. You will be successful in this role if you still love to be hands-on on the keyboard, can play in the command line, but also enjoy customer engagement, project management, and technical delivery. In addition to the required technical expertise, theyll also require base project management skills to monitor the progress of the customer initiative. What you'll be doing:
Effective in working with customers, including business executives, project managers, and IT development staff. Effective in understanding business needs and distilling the information into business and technical requirements. Comfortable working with complex business and technological requirements and translating into the design of solutions, including data visualization, workflow recommendations, migrations, and enterprise scale architecture. Ability to act as a functional lead and able to demonstrate clear approach to methodology as well as functional capabilities. Leads functional workshops with customers, documents requirements, and designs appropriate solutions. Speed is paramount. This team is nimble and is the fulcrum to accelerate the delivery of the solution for customers. Be a strong advocate for adherence to standards and best practices. Stay current on Grafana Labs, observability, and related technologies. You'll be a key resource for our Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Support, and Professional Services teams as they look to drive innovation and improvements into future product and offering enhancements. If you enjoy working with customers to help them succeed and thrive on working with leading-edge technologies, this is the role for you. What you'll bring along:
3+ years of experience working on deployment teams, using project management techniques. Located in PST Direct experience with o11y. Best practices for both using and deploying an o11y stack (visualization, alerting, metrics, logs, traces) - preferably with Grafana products (Grafana, Prometheus/Cortex/Enterprise Metrics, Loki/Enterprise Logs, Jaeger/Tempo). A proven track record of successful delivery of customer projects, preferably enterprise o11y implementations for large customers Self-starter, adept at picking up new skills and technologies, and eager to break new ground. Excellent communication skills to communicate with customers, partners, and internal members. Vision to help us take our company to the next level. Executive Presence.*nix and Windows Server Administration. Experience with Cloud Platforms - AWS, GCP, Azure. Software Engineering experience and or ability to read code (GoLang/JS/TypeScript). In the United States, the base compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $205,000. 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 on our careers page. *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 markets defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process. Why Youll Thrive at Grafana Labs: Scaling Organization
Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment. Remote-First, Global Culture
Work from anywhere with collaboration at the heart of everything we do. Transparent Communication
Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates. Innovation-Driven
Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things. Open Source Roots
Built on community-driven values that shape how we work. Empowered Teams
High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics. Career Growth Pathways
Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career. Approachable Leadership
Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human. Passionate People
Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do. In-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. Balance 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. Equal Opportunity Employer:
We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and were working hard to make sure thats the foundation of our organization as we grow. Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings. For information about how your personal data is used once youve applied to a job, check out our privacy policy . Create a Job Alert Interested in building your career at Grafana Labs? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email. Apply for this job
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At Grafana Labs, we strive to ensure we grow in a way that represents the world in which we live. To help us learn more about how we can increase diversity in our candidate pool, we invite you to voluntarily provide demographic information in a confidential survey. Providing this information is optional. It will not be used in the hiring process, and has no effect on your opportunity for employment. By voluntarily providing information and submitting your application, you explicitly consent to the collection of race, ethnicity, gender identity, and disability information and use of this information as described above . What gender identity do you most closely identify with? * Select... Race * Select... Are you a person of transgender experience? * Select... Voluntary Self-Identification
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United States (Remote) Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise Stack , both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir ), logs (Grafana Loki ), and traces (Grafana Tempo ). Were scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and thats okay. If this role excites you, wed love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. We are looking for a Solutions Architect (ProServ) to join our world class Customer Experience (CX) team. Solutions Architects at Grafana Labs provide customers with specialized business and technical consultation, and guidance to achieve their objectives using Grafana. Whats that actually mean? It means our customers:
Have a professional services partner at Grafana that understands their challenges and guides them to solutions through training, roadmapping, and specialized consulting.Have a partner that is not quota/sales-based, and can authentically have their best interest at heart. Have a partner that can share relevant stories and best practices across customers, helping them better achieve their own goals, while delivering a white-glove service engagement for offerings, features, and overall experience. Our SAs need to be hands-on-keyboard. You need to understand the ecosystem of services that our customers use and work with the customer to ensure success with Grafana at the center. Wed expect you to understand why Kubernetes is popular, how it relates to Prometheus, the difference between logs and metrics, the difference between pets and cattle, and more... Our SAs manage the life-cycle of our customers onboarding and adoption of Grafana offerings and features, with a commitment to deliver world-class experiences and time to value. You will be responsible for delivering packaged training, quick-starts, session cataloging, project and roadmap assurance, as well as specialized consulting for high-priority customers with complex technical requirements and resource constraints. This will include being an extra set of hands, hearts, and brains for customers (virtually or on-site). Our SA is responsible for managing the ongoing support to customers to ensure theyre continuing to get value from our commercial products and OSS projects. They will monitor support requests to identify any recurring issues, acting as the voice of the customer, and work with our product teams to recommend changes and improvements to our products. You will be successful in this role if you still love to be hands-on on the keyboard, can play in the command line, but also enjoy customer engagement, project management, and technical delivery. In addition to the required technical expertise, theyll also require base project management skills to monitor the progress of the customer initiative. What you'll be doing:
Effective in working with customers, including business executives, project managers, and IT development staff. Effective in understanding business needs and distilling the information into business and technical requirements. Comfortable working with complex business and technological requirements and translating into the design of solutions, including data visualization, workflow recommendations, migrations, and enterprise scale architecture. Ability to act as a functional lead and able to demonstrate clear approach to methodology as well as functional capabilities. Leads functional workshops with customers, documents requirements, and designs appropriate solutions. Speed is paramount. This team is nimble and is the fulcrum to accelerate the delivery of the solution for customers. Be a strong advocate for adherence to standards and best practices. Stay current on Grafana Labs, observability, and related technologies. You'll be a key resource for our Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Support, and Professional Services teams as they look to drive innovation and improvements into future product and offering enhancements. If you enjoy working with customers to help them succeed and thrive on working with leading-edge technologies, this is the role for you. What you'll bring along:
3+ years of experience working on deployment teams, using project management techniques. Located in PST Direct experience with o11y. Best practices for both using and deploying an o11y stack (visualization, alerting, metrics, logs, traces) - preferably with Grafana products (Grafana, Prometheus/Cortex/Enterprise Metrics, Loki/Enterprise Logs, Jaeger/Tempo). A proven track record of successful delivery of customer projects, preferably enterprise o11y implementations for large customers Self-starter, adept at picking up new skills and technologies, and eager to break new ground. Excellent communication skills to communicate with customers, partners, and internal members. Vision to help us take our company to the next level. Executive Presence.*nix and Windows Server Administration. Experience with Cloud Platforms - AWS, GCP, Azure. Software Engineering experience and or ability to read code (GoLang/JS/TypeScript). In the United States, the base compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $205,000. 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 on our careers page. *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 markets defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process. Why Youll Thrive at Grafana Labs: Scaling Organization
Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment. Remote-First, Global Culture
Work from anywhere with collaboration at the heart of everything we do. Transparent Communication
Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates. Innovation-Driven
Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things. Open Source Roots
Built on community-driven values that shape how we work. Empowered Teams
High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics. Career Growth Pathways
Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career. Approachable Leadership
Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human. Passionate People
Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do. In-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. Balance 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. Equal Opportunity Employer:
We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and were working hard to make sure thats the foundation of our organization as we grow. Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings. For information about how your personal data is used once youve applied to a job, check out our privacy policy . Create a Job Alert Interested in building your career at Grafana Labs? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email. Apply for this job
* indicates a required field First Name * Last Name * Preferred First Name Email * Phone Resume/CV Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf LinkedIn Profile * Share a link to your LI profile. Current company (if applicable) Are you currently based in, and do you intend to work from, the US or Canada? * Select... Are you currently eligible to work in your country of residence? * Select... Do you now or in the future require visa sponsorship to continue working in your country of residence? * Select... Were you referred to this role by a Grafanista? If so, let us know their name! Anything else you'd like to share with our hiring team? Are you located in PST? * Select... Equal Opportunity Employment Information
At Grafana Labs, we strive to ensure we grow in a way that represents the world in which we live. To help us learn more about how we can increase diversity in our candidate pool, we invite you to voluntarily provide demographic information in a confidential survey. Providing this information is optional. It will not be used in the hiring process, and has no effect on your opportunity for employment. By voluntarily providing information and submitting your application, you explicitly consent to the collection of race, ethnicity, gender identity, and disability information and use of this information as described above . What gender identity do you most closely identify with? * Select... Race * Select... Are you a person of transgender experience? * Select... Voluntary Self-Identification
For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey.Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file. As set forth in Grafana Labss Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law. If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows: A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability. A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service. An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense. An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985. Select... Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability
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A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your major life activities. If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability.
Disabilities include, but are not limited to: Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally) Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS Blind or low vision Cancer (past or present) Cardiovascular or heart disease Celiac disease Cerebral palsy Deaf or serious difficulty hearing Diabetes Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders Epilepsy or other seizure disorder Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome Intellectual or developmental disability Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD Missing limbs or partially missing limbs Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinsons disease, multiple sclerosis (MS) Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities Partial or complete paralysis (any cause) Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema Short stature (dwarfism) Traumatic brain injury Disability Status Select...
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