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Senior Solutions Architect - Grafana Labs Spain €112k in Columbus

Location Columbus
Company Grafana Labs
Source jobicy
Posted 2026-10-29 16:29:15

Career & Market Insight

Role Positioning & Market Value: Senior Solutions Architect roles in Professional Services at observability-focused SaaS companies command €90k–€130k in Western Europe. Grafana Labs' range of 94k–112k EUR is competitive but sits at the mid-market for Spain-based senior technical roles. The RSU package adds meaningful upside given Grafana's growth trajectory and high-profile investor backing (Sequoia, Lightspeed).

Skills You'll Build: This role is a career accelerator for engineers moving into customer-facing technical leadership. You'll deepen expertise in:

  • Enterprise observability architecture (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Grafana stack)
  • Kubernetes-native deployments at scale
  • Multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Executive stakeholder management and technical presales consulting

These skills are in extremely high demand — observability engineering is one of the fastest-growing areas in cloud infrastructure.

Culture & Work-Life Signals: 30 days PTO plus 3 company-wide shutdown days is above average for the tech industry. The low-ego, outcomes-over-optics culture signals a healthy work environment. The explicit "not a quota-carrying seller" framing is a strong green flag for engineers who don't want to be pressured into a sales-hybrid role.

Career Trajectory: This role bridges deep technical implementation and strategic advisory work — a natural stepping stone toward Principal/Staff Architect, Technical Account Management leadership, or a transition into a Product Management track within the observability space.

One Watch-Out: Customer-facing PS roles can involve intensive engagement periods. Confirm with the team how project loads are managed and whether there are clear boundaries between delivery and pre-sales support.

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 unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives. 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.

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 demonstrate a 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 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 Spain
  • 5+ years of experience working on deployment teams, using project management techniques.
  • Direct experience with observability (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 Spain, the base compensation range for this role is 94,000 – 112,830 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 carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law.

Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this role fully remote or does it require office attendance?
This role is 100% remote — Grafana Labs is a fully remote company with team members in 40+ countries. However, the position requires candidates to be located in Spain.
What is the salary range for this Senior Solutions Architect role in Spain?
The base compensation range in Spain is 94,000 – 112,830 EUR annually. All roles also include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and actual compensation may vary based on experience and interview assessment.
Do I need direct Grafana product experience to apply?
Grafana product experience is preferred (Grafana, Prometheus/Cortex, Loki, Tempo/Jaeger), but strong general observability stack experience is the core requirement. Grafana Labs encourages candidates to apply even if they don't meet every criterion.
What does the day-to-day work look like in this Professional Services role?
You'll lead technical workshops with customers, design observability architectures, deliver training and jumpstart engagements, and act as an embedded technical partner during critical implementation phases — collaborating closely with Sales, Engineering, and Support teams.
How much PTO do employees get at Grafana Labs?
Grafana Labs offers 30 days of annual leave globally, including 3 reserved Grafana Shutdown Days so the whole company disconnects together. Local legislation is respected where applicable.
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