Staff Frontend Engineer (Grafana Data Visualization)

Join Grafana, a leading open-source data visualization platform. As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you'll be responsible for enhancing the user experience, driving innovation, and solving complex engineering challenges. You'll work with a modern tech stack, enjoy a fully remote work environment, and benefit from generous vacation, healthcare, and professional development opportunities.

USD 174,986 - 209,983

About Grafana Labs

• User focus and pragmatism. You break complex problems into short feedback loops: analyze, design, deliver an MVP, learn, iterate
• You care about our community of users and contributors and are keen to be an active Grafana Community Contributor
• AI experience with a practical mindset: You’re familiar with AI technologies and frameworks, and you focus on delivering high-quality solutions that work in the real world, not just in theory

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout, including getting user feedback and measuring success.
• Mentor and collaborate with other engineers, raising the engineering bar through code review, design feedback, and pairing on hard problems.
• Participate in on-call for the services you help build, and be a force multiplier in incident response and post-incident learning.

Requirements

• You enjoy working on complex solutions, building production software systems. You’re a self-starter, capable of tackling complex engineering problems with minimal supervision
• Technical leadership. You have solid experience leading teams through projects, mentoring other engineers and serving as a force-multiplier. You communicate clearly in a fully remote, asynchronous environment
• You take responsibility for operating the software you have built. You have experience being on-call, supporting software in production, ensuring reliability and responding to incidents as needed
• We highly value those who are intellectually curious, who default to transparency, possess a high bias towards action, and who are also kind and enjoy working as a team
• Open-source contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the open
• Have an active interest in observability (Metrics, Logs and Traces) and have experience with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability platforms
• Experience as an on-call user of Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Tempo in a previous role (or on a homelab)
• Experience in a fully remote, globally distributed team