Senior Field Engineer, Grafana Labs
€120-145k
+ RSUs
Open & composable observability platform
Be an early applicant
Open & composable observability platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€120-145k
+ RSUs
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 may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity
- 5+ years of technical experience, serving as a SRE, Developer, Architect and/or successful presales Solution Architect. OSS selling experience is a plus
- Deep understanding of at least two to three of the technologies in the Observability space, eg. Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Elastic, Splunk, Datadog, etc
- Experience planning and executing a corporate Observability strategy
- Comfortable with at least one modern programming language
- Understanding of the modern software development lifecycle, including debugging, investigation
- Working familiarity with Linux, including common tools
- Should be able to Architect a Modern application on one of the primary cloud providers (AWS, Azure or GCP), including IAC tools such as Terraform, understand the tradeoffs between build vs buy, the technologies that you would make up that architecture like Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless, Microservices and many more
- Experience building and delivering technical content for technical audiences. This includes Workshops, Demos, Decks, Webinars, Videos etc
What the job involves
- The Field Engineering team works closely with our Presales Solution Engineering team, as well as Product and Marketing, to ensure the SE’s have the tools, collateral, enablement and experts they need to close business
- If you’ve ever served in a Technical Presales role for a software company, you know just how much knowledge you are expected to have, demos you need to show, workshops you need to execute on, etc
- The Field Engineering team maintains the backend systems, content creation and deep subject matter expertise that enables the Solution Engineering team to scale and focus on direct customer selling, community building, learning, and other adoption and revenue focused activities
- Anticipate the needs of the Solutions Engineering Team
- Designing, developing, and delivering technical presentations and white papers
- Creating and delivering Training Materials, Product Demonstrations and Product workshops to One-X organization, customers, and the community
- Partner with Product Management, Marketing, Engineering, and Customer Experience teams to support customer engagements
- Effectively become a SME on one or more of our products enabling you to assist the field with deep dive technical meetings, large strategic POV’s, blogs, webinars and more
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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