Staff Frontend Engineer, Grafana Labs

• We are looking for software engineers who are passionate about communicating with data and providing seamless experiences for our customers to join our growing team!
• You work well as a communicative member of a team of engineering professionals
• You earn trust by saying what you mean and doing what you say
• You are customer focused. You start with the customers’ needs and work backwards
• You insist on the highest standards and work to develop the skills and knowledge of your fellow team members
• You take on complex challenges and break them down into digestible problems and leverage your team and organization to deliver
• You design modular solutions, deliver minimum loveable products, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• Professional experience engineering testable React UIs from ideation through to production operations
• Professional experience developing clean, testable software with TypeScript
• Experience delivering deployable Webpack artifacts in a continuous delivery environment
• Building performant and robust tests with Jest and Playwright

Desirable

• Grafana Enterprise is our composable observability platform that is focused on large-scale operators with security and regulatory requirements that require them to self-operate their observability solutions. Grafana Enterprise features are also part of our Grafana Cloud service
• Grafana Cloud is an integrated suite of observability applications offered as a service. It allows our customers to leverage the best open source observability software – including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo – without the overhead of installing, maintaining and scaling their own observability stack
• The Grafana Enterprise team is a diverse team of expert technologists working remotely from around the globe. The team focuses on innovative solutions to large-scale customer challenges and developing solutions that improve security, robustness, flexibility, multitenancy, and interoperability on behalf of our customers
• We work across the larger Grafana Labs organization and directly with external customers to solve large scale observability challenges
• Our customers include software engineers, site reliability engineers, medium, large and global enterprises and leading global cloud service providers
• Our meetings tend to happen between 14:00 and 17:00 UTC, but we are flexible and responsive to the needs of our engineers and our customers
• Earning the trust of our customers to further Grafana’s “big tent” philosophy of data accessibility and to meet clear business objectives
• Leading the development of features for people like you
• Driving continuous improvement of our engineering culture through words and actions
• Driving projects from initial ideation through the development lifecycle to production
• Contributing to projects that impact the experience of Grafana operators around the world
• Owning the experience of our customers by participating in weekday 12h x 5d and separate weekend 24h x 2d on-call rotations. (Yes, we prioritize ops load reduction.)
• Hiring and developing the best engineers to build the future of Grafana
• Developing your skills as a thought leader to drive continuous improvement of engineering and operational practices across Grafana Labs
• As a Frontend Engineer, you will be working on visualizations for enterprise application developers who are managing their applications at runtime, and observability tools targeted for other frontend developers
• Collaborating with Product, UX, and graphic designers to turn their designs into great user experiences
• Implementing visual designs using clean, reusable components
• Collaborating with software engineers from across Grafana Labs and various large scale customers and IaaS providers
• Expand and improve our core libraries that other teams and the plugin ecosystem depend on
• Developing thought leadership within the front-end and UX community at Grafana Labs
• Advocating for our customers at every stage of the development lifecycle
• As we are remote-first and our engineering organization, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so strong teamwork and excellent written and interpersonal communication skills are a must