Staff Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Frontend Engineer and contribute to the development of our cloud products and open-source projects. This remote-first role, open to candidates in specific regions, focuses on enhancing the user experience of our observability platform. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, implement visual designs, and expand our core libraries. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in frontend engineering, a strong understanding of web application security, and proficiency in relevant technologies like React and TypeScript. Grafana Labs offers a competitive compensation package and a supportive, remote-friendly work environment.

Requirements

• Be comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key
• Be collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful
• Operate by consensus; contribute to a discussion, disagree constructively, and commit to the team’s decision
• Communicate design decisions clearly in written and spoken English
• Have at least a couple of years of experience as a Senior Frontend engineer
• Have a good understanding of a software development process that takes a user-centered approach
• Easily build an understanding of the users’ context and goals which will help you build the right solution with the maximum value
• Know how to transform ideas into working code – be able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself
• Enjoy working on complex solutions
• Value code maintainability, readability & automation
• Be able to troubleshoot modern web application issues and work with profilers, debuggers, bundlers, and testing libraries
• Have a strong understanding of web application security best practices and can identify and mitigate common vulnerabilities
• Be committed to writing secure code and be familiar with tools and techniques to ensure security at every stage of development
• Have experience with end-to-end testing, ensuring that the entire flow of an application functions as expected
• Be comfortable setting up and maintaining E2E testing frameworks, writing comprehensive test cases, and integrating these tests into the CI/CD pipeline to maintain high-quality standards

Responsibilities

• Work on the frontend for one of our cloud products
• Contribute to one of our open-source projects
• Collaborate 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. (Examples: Page layouts, menus, drawer, plugin build tools.)
• Regularly attend meetings with colleagues from different time zones

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with Linux and any of Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB or Elasticsearch

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)