Staff Frontend Engineer, Grafana Labs

• As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent and autonomous attitude and good communication skills are a must
• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action. You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a squad. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
• Leadership: You have experience guiding and supporting other engineers, leading initiatives or small teams, and driving projects to successful outcomes through collaboration
• Solid experience working with web applications ideally developed with React
• Solid experience unit and end to end testing your code ideally with Jest and Playwright
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others

Desirable

• The Adaptive Telemetry group, part of the Databases department, has the mission of ensuring that all telemetry stored in our databases is worthy of attention. Under that mission, the group is responsible for the development of Adaptive Metrics, Adaptive Logs, Adaptive Traces and Adaptive Profiles
• Our Adaptive Telemetry solutions give users the ability to control and optimize their telemetry data. These solutions ensure that data storage is optimized based on individual usage patterns, so only the most valuable data is retained
• Each Adaptive Telemetry solution comes with a Grafana plugin that allows for manual adjustments to the solution’s behavior or the acceptance of system-generated recommendations. Our Grafana plugins are Typescript applications developed with React and tested with Jest and Playwright
• As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you’ll contribute across multiple work streams and play a key role in shaping both the product and the team’s technical direction. You’ll collaborate closely with other frontend and backend engineers, providing guidance and technical leadership on larger projects, and helping to foster a positive, collaborative team culture. You’ll also write and review pull requests and design documents as part of continuously improving and refining the existing user interface
• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Lead and manage projects throughout their entire lifecycle, from the initial ideation and planning stages, through development and execution, to final delivery
• Contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
• Contribute actively to a positive team culture, fostering collaboration, psychological safety, and mutual respect
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers