Remote Senior Software Engineer - Identity and Access (Remote, Canada) with verification

This is a remote position. We are looking for candidates in Canada only. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer familiar with GoLang to join our Identity and Access team.About The Identity And Access TeamMillions of users sign in to Grafana every day to keep their software, factories, and space shuttles healthy and performant. We make sure they can do so as easily as possible, and we help admins sleep well at night knowing that their users have access to just the right data and functionality.As an Identity and Access team we are responsible for everything related to authorization and authentication in Grafana. Our daily work often spans both open source and proprietary code. Our next challenges revolve around streamlining and standardization of authentication and authorization experience in Grafana, while maintaining our existing functionality, supporting the community & customers.We are currently on a growth track and are constantly reviewing our ways of working to make sure they are scalable and accessible to everyone. We embrace experimentation, lean principles, and encourage everyone to share their ideas and perspectives.Come and join us if you’re interested in anything and everything authentication/authorization, and enjoy working with OSS as well as with proprietary software.Who We’re Looking ForWe're looking for someone with experience with authentication and authorization systems at scale.This role would be a good fit for you if:

• You are comfortable working in a remote-first company and understand the importance of communication.
• You have an interest in the authentication and authorization domains.
• You enjoy learning, growing, and supporting others to do the same.
• You have solid experience as a Software Engineer and feel comfortable working with Go, React, Typescript.
• You enjoy transforming ideas into working code – you are able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself, by collaborating with other engineers, product managers and designers very closely.
• You enjoy working on complex solutions – Grafana is a highly technical solution and has avid followers who rely on it every day and care deeply about their workflows.
• You care and value security, code maintainability, readability and testing.
• You enjoy working as a team. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful.
• You enjoy being part of the community. Community is part of our core, and interacting with the community is a day-to-day thing for us.
• You are interested in working directly with customers. Our customers interact with Grafana every day, they are at the forefront of what we do in the team and provide invaluable input. A strong candidate for this role would be interested in joining discussions with our customers, supporting them with their issues and looping back information to the team.

Technologies We UseGrafana is mostly open source, you can browse grafana/grafana on GitHub directly to see how we build our software, here are the highlights:

• Our backend is built in GoLang and our frontend in TypeScript using React.
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite are the main databases we support.

What We Work On

• The team collaborates on reviewing feature requests and escalations from the OSS community and our customer base, identifying high level roadmap themes and overall driving the direction of authentication and authorization at Grafana Labs.
• Our business as usual includes raising and fixing bugs, developing and testing new features, trialing innovative ideas for our products, close collaboration with UX, contributing to design docs and more.
• We are currently focusing on standardizing authorization in Grafana by developing the next generation authorization system.

A selection of the projects we are currently working on includes Grafana Cloud Access Policies, role-based access control, Grafana authentication, Grafana Service Accounts, Grafana enterprise enhanced authentication (SAML / LDAP / Team sync).In Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD 153,409- CAD 184,000. 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 here.About Grafana Labs: 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).Benefits: For more information about the perks and benefits of working at Grafana, please check out our careers page.Equal Opportunity Employer: At Grafana Labs we’re building a company where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. We know that our company runs on the hard work and the dedication of our passionate and creative employees. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.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 we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow.For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our privacy policy.