Observability Platform Lead (Grafana-Centric)

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Location : Coimbatore, Bangalore, Chennai,Hyderabad,Pune,Mumbai

Primary Skills : Observability Platform Lead (Grafana-Centric)

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days only

Experience : 5 To 8 Years

Email : Sumana.Reddy@alphacom.in

Job Description: Observability Platform Lead (Grafana-Centric) :5-8 Years

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer (7+ years) with deep specialization in the Grafana ecosystem and end-to-end observability platform engineering. This role owns the design, development, and scaling of a Grafana-first monitoring and observability stack, including multi-level integrations across telemetry backends and custom plugin development.

The engineer will also work hands-on with Golang-based services and integrations and leverage PostgreSQL for platform metadata, configuration, and plugin/backend persistence.

Key Responsibilities

1) Grafana Platform Engineering (Primary Focus)

• Design, deploy, and operate Grafana at scale (HA setups, performance tuning, RBAC, SSO/OIDC, multi-tenant patterns).
• Own Grafana provisioning-as-code (datasources, dashboards, alerting rules, contact points).
• Design and enforce enterprise dashboarding and alerting standards.
• Build scalable Grafana Alerting pipelines with noise reduction, deduplication, and on-call integrations.

2) Observability Stack Engineering (Metrics, Logs, Traces)

• Architect and operate telemetry pipelines across:
• Metrics: Prometheus / Mimir / Cortex
• Logs: Loki / Elastic / OpenSearch / LogScale
• Traces: Tempo / Jaeger
• Design high-signal dashboards (Golden Signals, RED/USE, SLO views).
• Implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation and collector pipelines.

3) Multi-Level Integrations with Data Sources

• Build deep integrations between Grafana and:
• Kubernetes and container platforms
• Cloud-native services and managed monitoring systems
• Databases, messaging systems, and custom internal platforms
• Enable metricslogstraces correlation via consistent labels, exemplars, and trace IDs.
• Implement consistent metadata strategies (service, environment, region, tenant).

4) Custom Grafana Plugin Development

• Design and build custom Grafana plugins, including:
• Data source plugins for proprietary or internal systems
• Panel plugins for domain-specific visualizations
• App plugins for bundled observability experiences
• Develop plugins using TypeScript/React (Grafana UI framework) and backend services as needed.
• Ensure plugin security, performance, versioning, signing, and backward compatibility.

5) Golang-Based Backend & Integration Development

• Design and develop Golang-based services that support:
• Custom telemetry ingestion or transformation
• Backend components for Grafana plugins
• Observability platform controllers, operators, or APIs
• Build performant REST/gRPC APIs for integration with Grafana and telemetry systems.
• Apply Go concurrency, memory, and performance best practices.

6) PostgreSQL Usage & Platform Persistence

• Use PostgreSQL for:
• Plugin backend persistence
• Observability platform metadata/configuration storage
• Feature state, tenancy, or dashboard governance data
• Design efficient schemas, indexes, and queries for scale.
• Ensure backup, migration, performance tuning, and access control best practices.

7) Security, Reliability & Operations

• Implement secure access patterns: SSO (OIDC/SAML), token-based auth, secrets management.
• Operate Grafana and observability components with SLO-driven reliability targets.
• Handle upgrades, incidents, and capacity planning for the platform itself.
• Establish governance for alert quality, dashboard ownership, and lifecycle management.

8) Enablement & Best Practices

• Build self-service onboarding paths for application and platform teams.
• Provide reusable dashboards, alert templates, and instrumentation guidelines.
• Coach teams on observability maturity and signal quality improvements.

Required Skills & Experience (Must-Have)

Experience

• 7+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or observability engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on ownership of Grafana as a platform, not just dashboard usage.

Grafana & Observability

• Advanced knowledge of:
• Grafana HA, provisioning, RBAC, alerting internals
• Prometheus data model and query optimization
• OpenTelemetry concepts and pipelines

Golang

• Production-grade Golang development experience
• Building APIs, background workers, or controllers used in observability platforms
• Familiarity with Go tooling, testing, and CI/CD pipelines

PostgreSQL

• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL in production
• Data modeling, indexing, query optimization, migrations, and backups
• Using PostgreSQL as a backend for platform services or plugins

Plugin Development (Critical)

• Proven experience developing custom Grafana plugins
• Strong TypeScript/React skills aligned with Grafana plugin SDK
• Understanding of plugin signing, version compatibility, and performance constraints

Good-to-Have / Preferred

• Grafana Agent / Alloy and OpenTelemetry Collector tuning at scale
• Multi-tenant observability system design
• Cost optimization for metrics/logs retention and sampling
• Kubernetes operators/controllers written in Go
• Incident management integrations (PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Opsgenie)