Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs, a remote-first, open-source company, as a Frontend Engineer and contribute to their business-critical incident response management (IRM) system. You will work with a team to deliver new features, iterate on improvements, and contribute to the open-source culture. The role involves collaborating with designers, implementing visual designs, expanding core libraries, and working with technologies like React, TypeScript, and Webpack. You will need experience in software development, cloud technologies, and collaboration. The company offers a remote-first environment, competitive compensation, and various benefits.

Requirements

• Experience collaborating with Product, UX and graphic designers to turn their designs into great user experiences
• Implement visual designs using clean, reusable components
• Expand and improve our core libraries that other teams and the plugin ecosystem depend on
• Technologies you will be working with: React, TypeScript, Webpack, Jest, Cypress
• Some experience with delivering projects - from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas, all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands, in a self-driven way
• Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer focused
• We build everything with our users in mind
• You produce work incrementally, shipping fast and iterating
• You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must

Responsibilities

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

Preferred Qualifications

• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code
• Willingness to go full-stack and expand your scope from frontend to backend and other areas of the system as your experience and expertise grows
• Experience with Golang, Python or other similar programming languages

Benefits

• In Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD 153,729 - CAD 184,475
• Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process
• Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here
• 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
• 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