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
• 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
• No blame: We focus on learning and improving ourselves and our product
• Better done than perfect: We iterate quickly and deliver value continuously
• Performance is non-negotiable: Dashboards must feel fast, always
• User-first: We design for real users solving real problems and we make data-driven decisions
• Mentorship & Innovation: we grow together through knowledge sharing, mentorship, internal hackathons, and constant learning
• 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

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
• Fond Perks: Grafanistas across the world receive access to Fond, a platform that provides access to pre-negotiated discounts on a wide variety of services including entertainment, food, and fitness
• 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