Senior Full Stack Engineer | Database Observability, Grafana Cloud | UK | Remote
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Job description
Frontend engineer on Grafana Cloud's Database Observability squad, building experiences that make complex database telemetry easy to explore and understand. The role focuses on frontend engineering with opportunities to work across the stack.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · UK
- Pay
- GBP 94,000 – 118,000 / year
What you'll do
- Own technical projects from problem framing through rollout, including getting user feedback and measuring whether what you shipped actually worked
- Collaborate with Product Management, Product Design and backend engineers to build intuitive user experiences using clean, reusable components, contributing to supporting APIs and backend functionality where needed
- Mentor and collaborate with other engineers; raise the engineering bar through code review, design feedback, pairing on hard problems, and writing
- Participate in on-call for the software you help build, contributing to incident response and learning from incidents
- Provide technical support in customer escalations and help identify areas of high friction to address
- Collaborate with other squads on shared dependencies, contribute to design proposals, and share the team's work through demos and technical discussions
What we're looking for
- Strong frontend engineering experience, with experience across the stack
- Experience building and maintaining production web applications with React and TypeScript, and comfortable contributing to backend services and APIs
- Value maintainability, readability, automated testing and secure development practices
- Technical ownership: solid experience delivering complex projects, mentoring other engineers and helping teammates work more effectively
- Communicate clearly in a fully remote, asynchronous environment
- Take responsibility for operating the software you have built; experience being on-call, supporting software in production, ensuring reliability and responding to incidents
- Enjoy working on complex solutions, building production software systems; self-starter capable of tackling complex engineering problems with minimal supervision
- User focus and pragmatism: break complex problems into short feedback loops: analyze, design, deliver an MVP, learn, iterate
- AI experience with a practical mindset: use AI coding tools thoughtfully to improve productivity and quality, validate their output, and share useful practices with teammates
- Care about the community of users and contributors and are keen to be an active Grafana Community Contributor
Nice to have
- Open-source contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the open
- An active interest in observability (metrics, logs and traces) and experience with tools like Grafana, Prometheus or other observability platforms
- Experience with databases, SQL or database performance monitoring
- Experience building backend services in Go
- 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
Your team
Database Observability squad
Builds and evolves Grafana Cloud Database Observability, helping users understand the health and performance of their databases, identify slow queries and troubleshoot issues through clear, actionable insights. Part of the Observability department.
Benefits
- 100% Remote, Global Culture
- Scaling Organization
- Transparent Communication
- Innovation-Driven
- Open Source Roots
- Empowered Teams
- Career Growth Pathways
- Approachable Leadership
- Passionate People
- In-Person onboarding
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Company-funded AI tool usage budget and access to latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
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About Grafana Labs
The company behind Grafana Cloud
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. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries.
Key facts
- Observability / software
- 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries
- Grafana Cloud trusted by more than 10,000 organizations
- Backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital
- Open-source legacy
Partners & customers
What they value
- Default to transparency
- Bias towards action
- Kind and enjoy working as a team
- High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics