Staff Software Engineer - Grafana Cloud k6 | Canada | Remote at Grafana Labs

**Who this is for** This role is designed for a senior-level engineer with a deep background in SRE/DevOps and distributed systems. You should be someone who enjoys building high-scale performance testing tools for other engineers and has a strong programming foundation in Go or Python. Since this is a "Staff" level position, they are looking for a technical leader who can set operational standards across teams. **Key highlights** This is a 100% remote-first role within Canada, offering a high degree of autonomy and a generous compensation package (up to $223k CAD base plus equity). You’ll be working on k6, a major tool in the observability space, during a period of rapid scale. A unique perk is the heavy investment in developer productivity, including a company-funded budget for modern AI coding assistants and frontier models. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have extensive experience operating production systems at scale and defining SLIs/SLOs. * Are passionate about open-source and building developer-centric tools. * Enjoy mentoring teams on incident response, reliability frameworks, and "on-call" best practices. * Value a transparent, high-trust culture with 30 days of annual leave and dedicated "shutdown days."