Senior Solutions Engineer

About the Position

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

We’re 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Join as an early member of a high growth team working together to solve technical and customer problems the right way
• Partner with our Sales team to articulate the overall Grafana value proposition, vision, and strategy to customers
• Own the technical engagement with customers and help to close high-velocity opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
• Deliver product and technical presentations to potential and existing customers
• Proactively communicate with customers and internal teams to provide a feedback loop on our products and the competitive landscape
• Drive product conversations based on need and problems learned during customer interactions
• Work with the team to enhance documentation, write blog posts, record videos, contribute knowledge base articles, and create other public and internal enablement material

Requirements

• Ideally located in Canada
• 5+ years of technical pre-sales experience, ideally with Open Source technologies, or in the Metrics/Monitoring space
• Strong judgment, collaboration, and leadership skills
• Ability to work and collaborate with an international team
• First-class written and oral communication skills
• Passion for solving technical challenges and bringing creative solutions to customers
• Self-motivated, initiative, creative, and technically minded

We Offer

• Compensation & Rewards: In Canada, the OTE (On-Target Earnings) compensation range for this role is CAD 196,000 - CAD 255,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success.
• 100% Remote, Global Culture: As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Scaling Organization: Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation 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.