Software Engineer - Identity and Access | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading open-source technology company is seeking a Software Engineer for their Identity and Access team. This remote position involves developing and maintaining authentication and authorization systems for millions of users. Ideal candidates should have experience with Golang or Rust, be comfortable with open-source tools, and possess good communication skills. Join a collaborative team culture focused on autonomy and impactful work.

Benefits

100% Remote work

30 days annual leave

In-person onboarding

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or related disciplines.
• Experience with Go or Rust.
• Ability to work as part of a cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain our authentication and authorization stack.
• Implement authentication and authorization protocols.
• Contribute to design and implementation of scalable systems.

Skills

Software Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Tools

Golang

Rust

OpenFGA

Observability Tools

Job description

Software Engineer - Identity and Access | UK | Remote

United Kingdom (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. 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 ).

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.

This is a remote opportunity and we are looking for candidates based in the UK, Germany, Sweden or Spain.

The Opportunity:

Millions 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 the 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 scaling the authentication and authorization experience in Grafana, while maintaining our existing functionality, as well as supporting the community & customers.

In this role you\'ll work on the development of the next generation of Grafana\'s authentication and authorization systems, responsible for authorizing millions of users every day.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You will work alongside your teammates to develop and maintain our authentication and authorization stack, which is largely built on open source tooling. We actively implement cutting-edge authentication and authorization protocols and systems, based on MCP OAuth (OAuth 2.1) and OpenFGA (Zanzibar), rather than relying on off-the-shelf components.

• Approximately 60% of your time will be dedicated to backend development (Golang), 30% to operations, and 10% to frontend adjustments
• Develop and maintain features for Grafana Cloud\'s internal and customer-facing authorization stack
• Contribute to the design and implementation of long horizon, scalable systems in the critical path of user interaction
• Build prototypes and present your ideas as part of a cross-functional team
• Stay up to date with the latest changes in Authorization and Authentication
• Grow to represent Grafana Labs in meetups and conferences

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Experience working in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or related disciplines
• Experience with Go or Rust
• Experience with delivering projects from start to finish in an autonomous, self-driven manner
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work as part of a cross-functional team and quickly gather and build your knowledge
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills in English

Bonus Points For:

• Experience working with OpenFGA
• Experience working in security critical environments
• Experience contributing to or maintaining Open Source projects
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)

What you’ll bring to the role

At Grafana Labs, we expect you to be comfortable working in a remote-first culture; communication is key. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. We operate by consensus, you are expected to contribute to a discussion, and commit to the team\'s decision.

• Bring your eagerness to learn and grow. The team and scope of work is dynamic, bringing excellent opportunity for furthering your skillset
• You enjoy working on complex solutions. The Cloud Integrations team develops and maintains over a hundred integrations with third party software. We care deeply about evolving and improving processes for both ourselves and our customers
• You have a passion for observability and like to share your knowledge by writing documentation and blog posts
• You would like to become an active member of various Open Source communities, including Open Source projects such as OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
• You’re curious and you enjoy learning new programming languages and frameworks, setting up examples, and figuring out how things work.

No changes to compensation details are included here aside from general statements; specific ranges are discussed during the interview process.

Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:

• 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: 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.

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