Senior Solutions Architect | Netherlands | Remote

Grafana; Amsterdam; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

100% Remote

Global team culture

30 days leave/year

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect (Professional Services) to join its Customer Experience team. This role is highly hands-on, acting as a trusted technical partner who guides onboarding, implementation, and expansion with white-glove support and proven strategies.

You’ll work across Kubernetes, Prometheus, logs, and traces to deliver tailored consulting and roadmap assurance while collaborating with Sales, Product, and Engineering to drive standards and customer success.

Qualifications

• Located in the Netherlands.
• 5+ years of deployment team experience with project management.
• Direct experience with observability (o11y).
• Kubernetes and Grafana product experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Responsibilities

• Work with customers including executives, PMs, and IT staff.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Design solutions including data visualization, workflows, migrations, and enterprise-scale architecture.
• Lead functional workshops, document requirements and design solutions.
• Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, Support for innovations and improvements.
• Deliver high-quality technical consulting and ensure timely engagement outcomes.

Skills

Deployment experience

Observability

Communication

Cloud platforms knowledge

Tools

Kubernetes

Grafana

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

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. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. 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.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Solutions Architect (Professional Services) to join Grafana Labs’ world‑class Customer Experience team. This is a highly hands‑on role for technically skilled professionals who thrive on helping customers solve complex problems, accelerate adoption, and drive real business outcomes with Grafana at the center. As a Solutions Architect, you’ll be a trusted technical partner—not a quota-carrying seller, but a customer‑first advocate who leads with authenticity and insight. You’ll guide organizations through onboarding, implementation, and expansion by offering white‑glove support, best practices, and proven strategies gathered from across our customer base. You’ll operate with one foot in the code and the other in the customer’s world. Whether it’s understanding container orchestration in Kubernetes, fine‑tuning Prometheus queries, or clarifying the nuances between logs, metrics, and traces—you’ll bring clarity and confidence to complex technical landscapes. You know the difference between "pets and cattle" and why that matters for scalable observability. You’ll deliver high‑impact training, jumpstart engagements, and offer tailored technical consulting to help customers succeed. As an embedded partner during critical phases, you’ll provide roadmap assurance, guide project execution, and ensure Grafana's capabilities align with the customer’s architecture, goals, and constraints. Along the way, you’ll identify recurring issues, monitor support needs, and advocate for product improvements in close collaboration with internal teams. Success in this role means being a strategic thinker and a command‑line problem solver. You’re passionate about OSS, love engaging with customers, and have the instincts to manage timelines, unblock teams, and deliver value at every stage of the engagement. Join us and help elevate the Grafana customer experience through world‑class technical delivery and meaningful impact.

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 Makes You a Great Fit

• Located in the Netherlands
• 5+ years of experience working on deployment teams, using project management techniques.
• 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
• Excellent communication skills to communicate with customers, partners, and internal members.
• Kubernetes (kubectl, Helm, Tanka preferred).
• Experience with Cloud Platforms - AWS, GCP, Azure

Bonus Points For

• Self-starter, adept at picking up new skills and technologies, and eager to break new ground.
• Vision to help us take our company to the next level.

Compensation & Rewards

In the Netherlands, the base compensation range for this role is 109,697 - 131,636 EUR. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.

• 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 market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the 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. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.

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