Staff Frontend Engineer - Grafana DataViz | Canada | Remote
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Job description
Senior frontend engineer role in Grafana Labs' DataViz squad, building and evolving Grafana's visualizations. The role leads multi-quarter technical initiatives and mentors engineers across the Grafana Frontend team.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Canada
- Pay
- CAD 186,368 – 223,642 / year
What you'll do
- Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives from problem framing through rollout, including getting user feedback and measuring whether what you shipped actually worked
- 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 services you help build, and be a force multiplier in incident response and post-incident learning
- Provide technical support in customer escalations and help identify areas of high friction to address
- Represent the team's work outside the team, write design proposals, run demos, and make the case for the roadmap in cross-team discussion
- Use modern AI coding assistants as part of the daily workflow within security guidelines
What we're looking for
- Solid experience leading teams through projects, mentoring other engineers and serving as a force-multiplier
- Communicate clearly in a fully remote, asynchronous environment
- Experience being on-call, supporting software in production, ensuring reliability and responding to incidents
- Enjoy working on complex solutions and 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)
- Familiarity with AI technologies and frameworks with a practical mindset focused on real-world solutions
- Care about the Grafana community of users and contributors and keen to be an active Grafana Community Contributor
- Intellectually curious, default to transparency, high bias towards action, kind and enjoy working as a team
Nice to have
- Open-source contribution or maintainership, and comfort engaging a community in the open
- Active interest in observability (Metrics, Logs and Traces) and 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
Your team
DataViz squad (Grafana Frontend group)
Builds and evolves the Grafana Visualizations so users can visualize their data in a way that's easy to set up and understand.
Benefits
- 100% remote, global culture
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Company-funded AI usage budget and access to latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
- Global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum, with 3 days reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days
- In-person onboarding
- Career growth pathways
- Transparent communication and regular company-wide updates
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About Grafana Labs
The company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform
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