Staff Product Design Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs as a Staff Product Design Engineer and be a founding member of the new Product Design Engineering team. This remote role (Canada EST) combines strategic thinking, hands-on coding, and UX design expertise to create scalable, user-friendly solutions. You will work directly with engineering teams to design, prototype, and implement user-facing solutions, ensuring they are maintainable and cohesive with the broader Grafana ecosystem. You will also contribute to evolving shared UI components that can be leveraged across multiple teams. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in frontend engineering, design engineering, or a similar role and a strong technical background in React, TypeScript, Emotion, and modern frontend development best practices. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on a globally recognized platform.

Requirements

• Founder Mentality: You’ll be a founding member of the team - which is a new function at Grafana! - so you will be expected to help define and shape the team. You’ll also have to operate autonomously to quickly design and build solutions in a highly ambiguous space. We are looking for self-starters who have a bias to action and who want to drive impact!
• Extensive Experience: 8+ years in frontend engineering, design engineering, or a similar role
• Strong Technical Background: Proficiency in React, TypeScript, Emotion and/or SaaS and modern frontend development best practices
• Design Expertise: Deep understanding of UI/UX principles and interaction design. This role does not require that you use design tools like Figma - but you should have a strong understanding of Product Design principles and an interest in / experience with building UI components
• Prototyping & Rapid Iteration: Ability to build interactive prototypes in code or other tools (wireframes) to validate ideas quickly
• Systems Thinking: Experience in creating and evolving design systems or component libraries at scale
• Excellent Communication & Collaboration: Comfortable working cross-functionally in a remote-first environment
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Thrives in ambiguity, balancing speed with quality to deliver impactful solutions

Responsibilities

• Lead High-Impact Product Initiatives: Embed with engineering teams for 1-2 quarters at a time to accelerate design and frontend development for mission-critical projects
• Prototype and Ship User-Centric Solutions: Rapidly create interactive UI components, ensuring seamless integration into existing workflows
• Develop and Maintain Reusable UI Components: Lead the development of clean, accessible and highly reusable components in order to drive consistency and efficiency across our wider product suite
• Collaborate with Teams Across the Company: Work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers across Grafana Labs to align on technical and design strategies
• Mentor and Inspire: Guide engineers and designers on frontend best practices, accessibility, and scalable component design

Benefits

• Be a Founding Member of a New Team: This is an opportunity to help define and establish a new function at Grafana Labs
• Work on Meaningful Challenges: Tackle complex UI and UX problems while building experiences that impact millions of users worldwide
• Autonomy & Impact: Drive initiatives from conception to execution, influencing both design and engineering teams
• Remote-First Culture: Work in a truly remote-first culture while being part of a collaborative, globally distributed team
• In Canada, the Base compensation range for this role is CAD $ 174,176 - CAD $209,011. 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