Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
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$148.5-178.2k
+ Equity + Bonus (if applicable)
Open & composable observability platform
Job no longer available
Open & composable observability platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$148.5-178.2k
+ Equity + Bonus (if applicable)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unite data, no matter where it lives, and empower its users to analyze, take action, and make smart decisions.
Role
Who you are
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first company; communication is key
- You are comfortable in a collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful environment
- You value autonomy and enabling decisions over committees and red tape
- You work well within a team in an agile setup and you're driven to help others
- Although you can drive your work independently, you also know when to reach out for help
- You are not afraid to ask questions, look for support and guidance from your mentors and the senior engineers in the team
- You care deeply about user experience and the quality of the products that you work on
- You have interests in full-stack development and working in DevOps environments. Engineering teams at Grafana operate in a “you build it, you own it” team mindset
- You have experience with Javascript, HTML, NodeJS, React, or similar technologies
- Some nice to haves
Desirable
- You believe that automation/as-code is important for predictable and reproducible systems
- You have prior experience or interest in Kubernetes and using Cloud providers
What the job involves
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Drive projects from initial ideation all the way to operations once it is in the hands of stakeholders
- Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
- Help design, build, operate, and maintain our critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
- Continuously make the existing code better by tackling tech debt, improving the CI/CD pipelines, and increasing test coverage
- If required and applicable, be a part of your team’s on-call rotations and take ownership of the components and libraries you’re maintaining
- Collaborate with the team and stakeholders over async (Slack, Google Docs) or over meetings
Application process
- Video chat with 1 of our Talent Managers (30 mins)
- Video chat with 1 of our Hiring Managers (45 mins)
- A take home exercise
- Project Deep Dive interview to talk about a past project/system you worked/built on (60 mins)
Our take
Observability plays a crucial role in software development, where dashboards are pivotal for monitoring the health of IT infrastructure across an organization. However, for developers, the frustration of spending unnecessary time navigating between different dashboards to find the latest information detracts from valuable programming time.
Grafana creates customizable observability platforms for its clients, to enhance the efficiency of this process. Its offerings include cloud-based data structures, dashboards, API plugins, and collaboration tools. The company boasts over 25 million users globally, with a customer base exceeding 5,000 and including prominent names like Bloomberg, PJ Morgan Chase, eBay, PayPal and Sony.
While Grafana provides free plans with a simplified tool package, the Grafana Enterprise Stack offers customized solutions on a monthly subscription. The company's continues to improve to meet the evolving needs of its users, enhancing functionality with each iteration. It also fosters community engagement by enabling users to share their Grafana dashboards with the broader open-source community.
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Insights
49% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2024
$270m
SERIES D
Apr 2022
$240m
SERIES D
Total funding: $805.2m
Company benefits
- Vacation: Balance is key. Our team enjoys 30 days of paid vacation each year on top of national holidays, parental leave, and sick leave. We also take a breather on a number of Grafana Shutdown Days each year
- Healthcare: We’re proud to provide health coverage or stipends for our colleagues in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, and India
- Retirement planning: There’s no time like the present to start saving for your future. We make employer contributions into the pension pots of our team members in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Germany
- Professional development: On top of a $1,500 annual learning and development stipend, Grafanistas have thousands of on-demand courses at their fingertips to help them grow professionally. Want to attend a conference or training? Go ahead. Just pass on what you learned
- Work location: Vast majority of our roles are fully remote, focused on hiring the best talent and allowing you to perform from the comfort of your home. If you fancy a change of scene, we’ll also reimburse you up to $175 a month for a personal co-working space
- Choice of tech: There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to the tech required to do your job. Choose the laptop and accessories you need when you join us, and we’ll refresh them every three years
- Mindfulness: When you join the team, you can sign up for a complimentary subscription to Headspace to take advantage of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation. Our wellbeing resource group also organize sessions run by fellow Grafanistas or external trainers
- Paid parental leave: Grafana offers paid parental leave to all eligible new parents. This offers Grafanistas time to bond with and care for their children in the first year after birth or adoption
- Global Employee Assistance Program: We offer all team members a 100% confidential support service with 24/7 365 access to professionally qualified counsellors and specialists
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Raj Dutt
(CEO & Co-Founder)Currently a Board Member at NSONE. Previously founded Voxel where they served as the CEO for 12 years. They also served as the Senior Vice President of Technology at Internap Network Services.
Torkel Ödegaard
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Mälardalen University with a Master's in Computer Science. Founder of Coding Instinct. Previously worked as a Consultant at H&M, Avega, and Ebay.
Anthony Wood
(Co-Founder)Previously worked at Visa and Voxel as a Senior Systems Engineer. They also have Systems Engineering experience at PalVision and iiNet.
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