Senior Frontend Engineer, Grafana Labs
Grafana Dashboards Core
$148.5-178.2k
Benefits include equity and bonus (if applicable)
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Open & composable observability platform
Job no longer available
Open & composable observability platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$148.5-178.2k
Benefits include equity and bonus (if applicable)
More information about location
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 have experience with building frontend applications (ideally using React / TypeScript) using best practices, documentation and testing
- You are proactive and have experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product in a self-driven way with a design oriented mindset
- You are pragmatic, curious, and enjoy balancing engineering tradeoffs
- You are comfortable working in a remote-first company and understand the importance of communication
- You value autonomy and enabling decisions over committees and red tape
- You are eager to learn and grow. There is a lot of room for growth and development
- You know how to transform ideas into working code. you are able to design a solution, get feedback, and write a prototype by yourself
- You enjoy working on complex solutions
- You enjoy working as a team. For us, working together means being collaborative, friendly, kind, and respectful. Supporting each other when needed
- You care about our community of users and contributors
Desirable
- You are organised and have a strong sense of accountability
- You are familiar with dashboards, stateful runtimes, or schema-based architecture
- Have worked on APIs, SDKs, or libraries used by other developers
- You have experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
- You have experience and techniques to deal with disruptions - our squad triage can get busy with bug reports, feature requests and customer escalations
- You are used to working in evolving & fast-paced environments, and can adapt to changing priorities
What the job involves
- The Grafana Frontend group is responsible for the end to end user experience on Grafana the observability product and Grafana the platform used by many engineers to build plugins
- Our squads are responsible for dashboards, data visualisation and manipulation, navigation across the ecosystem, sharing experience, content search,organisation and more
- Our mission is to provide a reliable runtime for dashboards. We are responsible for the end user experience of loading and exploring a dashboard, but also for the developer experience of those who use our building blocks
- Dashboards product: We build and evolve the engine and components behind the Grafana dashboard experience and developer platform
- Shaping the Foundation: we support internal teams building on top of the Scenes library and the dashboard model. We maintain the dashboard schema, ensure consistency, and collaborate across squads to evolve this definition and unlock powerful capabilities
- Community Engagement: we listen to the open-source community, we retrieve contributions, and turn feedback into real improvements
- Operational Excellence: we own the performance, reliability, and maintainability of a system that runs at global scale. We value readability, maintainability and clarity of our code
- Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
- Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
- Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
- Respond to community and customers who raise bug reports, feature requests or escalations
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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