Senior Observability Architect, Australia at Grafana Labs

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Grafana Labs is hiring a senior observability architect, australia focused on observability architecture and telemetry systems.

Grafana Labs

Location: Remote
Advertised region: Australia (Remote)
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: Kubernetes

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Role overview

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.

At Grafana Labs, we’re redefining what post-sales technical partnership looks like—and it starts with the Observability Architect . This is a role for deeply technical experts who are ready to step into strategic leadership with our most important customers. If you thrive at the intersection of systems thinking, architecture design, and customer impact—this is your stage.

As an Observability Architect, you will be the technical owner of long-term customer success. You’ll architect and guide the implementation of complex observability solutions across a wide range of modern infrastructure and application environments. You’ll build strategic relationships with engineers, SREs, and architects—ensuring Grafana’s technology is not just deployed, but deeply embedded into mission-critical systems.

Working hand-in-hand with our Engagement Managers, you’ll lead technical discovery, design, onboarding, and enablement—all with a focus on delivering tangible outcomes. You’ll spot patterns, solve hard problems, and guide customers through their observability maturity curve with authority and clarity.

You’ll also represent the technical voice of our customers internally—shaping product feedback and roadmap priorities by working closely with Engineering and Product Management.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role for those who want to go deep, stay technical, and directly influence customer success at scale. Join us and become part of the most respected observability team in the industry.

Serve as the primary technical point of contact for a portfolio of Grafana customers.

Design the observability maturity journey of customers and assist them on that path.

Provide expert-level troubleshooting and guidance to drive adoption.

Conduct regular technical reviews and health checks to ensure client success. Assist in RCA to understand issues that affect customer satisfaction, retention, and overall product experience.

Responsibilities

Design, build and operate production systems for observability architecture and telemetry systems.
Collaborate with customers, product and engineering teams.
Improve reliability, performance, testing, automation and documentation.
Translate technical requirements into maintainable services and outcomes.

Qualifications

Advise clients on best practices and strategies for leveraging our technology to achieve their business goals
Collaborate with clients to develop and execute technical roadmaps.
Identify opportunities for clients to optimize their cost, expand their use of our solutions and drive adoption of new products and features.
Develop and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key stakeholders.
With the support of our Engagement Managers and Onboarding Solutions Architects, own customer lifecycle.
Drive the adoption and effective use of our product suite within your customer portfolio to maximize their value from our platform and ensure a strong return on investment.
Act as the voice of the customer within the company, advocating for their needs, priorities and feature requests.
Conduct training sessions and workshops to educate clients on our technology.
Develop and deliver technical documentation, guides, and tutorials.
Work alongside account teams to participate in and/or conduct regular reviews with customers to identify areas for improvement, calculate ROI, assess their satisfaction, and discuss upcoming needs and projects.
Prepare and present reports on client metrics, achievements, and areas of focus.
Strong understanding of observability solutions. Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki a plus.
Proven ability to manage multiple clients and projects simultaneously.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to travel as needed to meet with clients (up to 25%).

Technology in this role

Kubernetes: • Experience deploying and operating .
Go: This is a hands-on, high-impact role for those who want to go deep, stay technical, and directly influence customer success at .
CAN: 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, .
Salesforce: Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana .
Prometheus: Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki a .
Grafana: 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 .

Benefits

Remote arrangement and country limits as stated in the official posting.
Opportunity to work on observability, cloud and developer infrastructure products.