Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers – including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce – trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and we’re backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
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.
The Opportunity:
The Grafana Cloud Observability department is focused on enabling developers to understand the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure in any environment by providing tools to instrument their code, ingest observability data into Grafana Cloud and visualize and explore it.
In this role, you will be part of the Cloud Integrations team. We develop our portfolio of integrations that allow customers to collect, visualize and act on telemetry from various systems and applications.
The software you will create is a core building block for the users of Grafana Cloud, and has direct impact on Grafana Cloud’s out of the box experience.
Our work is built on Open Source technologies such as Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, which you will also have the opportunity to actively contribute to.
What You’ll Be Doing:
You will bring your software engineering expertise to develop the tooling that powers our portfolio of cloud integrations and observability apps; working to develop, maintain and scale our infrastructure observability features in Grafana Cloud.
We’re looking for someone who can work across the full stack:
- Frontend - written in Typescript / React
- Backend - written in Golang
- Monitoring Mixins - written in Jsonnet
Day to day, that looks like:
- Ship features end to end, from the UI a user clicks through to the backend services behind it and the dashboards and alerts that ship with each integration
- Move between parts of the stack as the work demands. Some weeks are a React panel, some weeks a Go service, some weeks a Jsonnet mixin
- Own projects from problem statement to production, including talking to users and checking whether what you shipped actually worked
- Represent the team's work outside the team: write the design proposals, run the demos, and make the case for our roadmap in cross-team discussions
- Contribute upstream to Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and Grafana Alloy where our work touches them
- Join the on-call rotation for the services you own
We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, within security guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test generation, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-ups—always with strong code review and quality standards. You'll also have access to the latest frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
As we have embraced a remote-first approach and our engineering team is primarily remote, it is essential to possess strong communication skills and the ability to work independently. We provide support and hold regular meetings through video calls to ensure effective collaboration and alignment.
What Makes You a Great Fit:
- Interest in working across the full stack, with a product-focused mindset. You start from the user problem and are comfortable deciding what to build, not only how to build it
- Experience on both the backend and the frontend. We use Go and TypeScript; solid experience with comparable languages translates well
- Fluency with AI-assisted development. You use coding agents and LLM tooling as part of how you work, and you have a clear view of where they speed things up and where they get in the way
- Comfort being visible. You raise concerns early, advocate for your team's work across the org, and turn quiet good work into decisions other people can see and act on
- Working knowledge of the observability ecosystem: Prometheus, Grafana dashboards, alerting, and what it takes to run these systems in production
- Strong written communication. Most of our decisions happen in docs, issues and pull requests across several time zones
Bonus Points For:
- Experience contributing to or maintaining Open Source projects, with evidence of successful pull requests and community collaboration
- Experience working on Developer Tooling with a large user base
- Experience building Grafana plugins, apps or dashboards
- Familiarity with Grafana Alloy, the OpenTelemetry Collector, or similar telemetry pipeline tooling
- Experience writing Jsonnet, or another configuration-as-code language
- You have been on-call for the systems you instrument, so you know what a useful alert looks like
In Canada, the OTE (On-Target Earnings)/Base compensation range for this role is CAD $164,490 - $197,389. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally.
*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs:
- 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
- Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
- Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
- Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
- Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
- Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
- Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
- Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
- In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Grafana Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, nationality, origin, caste, sex, gender reassignment identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, disability, veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, maternity, marital, family or carer status, or any other characteristic which is protected by local law. We believe that equality and diversity build a strong organisation, and we work hard to ensure that is the foundation of our organisation as we grow.
Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings.
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Skills Required
- Experience with TypeScript and React
- Experience with Golang (Go) for backend services
- Working knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana dashboards, and alerting
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and telemetry pipeline tooling
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools and coding agents
- Strong written communication and doc-driven decision making
- Product-focused mindset; ability to ship end-to-end features
- Ability to join and participate in on-call rotation for owned services
- Located in and able to work from the US or Canada (EST time zone)
- Experience contributing to or maintaining Open Source projects (evidence via PRs)
- Experience building developer tooling with a large user base
- Experience building Grafana plugins, apps, or dashboards
- Familiarity with Grafana Alloy or the OpenTelemetry Collector
- Experience writing Jsonnet or other configuration-as-code languages
Grafana Labs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Grafana Labs and has not been reviewed or approved by Grafana Labs.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision options with low deductibles in the US and local equivalents in other countries. Mental health support is also included, alongside wellness support that can be applied to therapy or ergonomic needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as notably generous, including 30 days of paid vacation plus holidays and additional shutdown days. Parental leave and sick leave are also part of the time-off package, supporting broader work-life needs.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is presented as a standard component of compensation, with RSUs included across roles to provide ownership in company outcomes. The package framing emphasizes total compensation that combines base pay with equity and, in some cases, bonuses.
Grafana Labs Insights
What We Do
Grafana Labs provides an open and composable monitoring and observability stack built around Grafana, the leading open source technology for dashboards and visualization. There are more than 5,000 Grafana Labs customers, including Bloomberg, Citigroup, Dell Technologies, Salesforce, and TomTom, and more than 20 million users of Grafana around the world. Grafana Labs helps companies manage their observability strategies with the LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with Grafana Cloud or self-managed with the Grafana Enterprise offerings, both featuring scalable metrics (Grafana Mimir), logs (Grafana Loki), and traces (Grafana Tempo) as well as extensive enterprise data source plugins, dashboard management, alerting, reporting, and security.
Why Work With Us
Clear communication is vital in a remote-first company. We hold weekly team updates, monthly all-hands calls, co-located offsites, and annual events. We've enhanced hiring, onboarding, and training with a learning management tool and quarterly bootcamps. We offer 30 vacation days plus local holidays, with equal benefits for all employees globally.
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